by design | Jan 10, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
Source: Harry Brooks Facebook Page “Newsflash – Just appointed Chairman of the House Education Committee. Anxious to start working!”
by design | Jan 9, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
Expect significant traffic delays Thursday and Friday in portions of Knox County… What: Transport of 218-ton equipment on City of Knoxville roads When: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday and Friday (Jan. 10th & 11th) Where: From Forks of the River Industrial Park to...
by design | Jan 9, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
As a political journalist, I am always on the lookout for new innovations involving encryption technology. So when I read Tigerspike Announces Karacell, Delivering Faster, Secure, Quantum Resistant ‘Made for Mobile’ Video Encryption, I was beyond excited...
by design | Jan 8, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
Piles of CDs come into the studio at the start of the new semester. The blizzard of new CDs mailed to 90.3 FM. With the start of the new year and a new semester at WUTK 90.3 FM comes the challenge of listening to hundreds of new album releases. This past Sunday I...
by design | Jan 8, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
This Saturday, January 12th, Knox County is partnering with the City of Knoxville, Optimist Club of West Knoxville and the Knoxville Volunteer Rescue Squad for the “Plug-In to Your Community” electronic-waste recycling event. Saturday’s event will take place rain or...
by design | Jan 7, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson In case you haven’t realized, the world has fundamentally changed and the “New Order” is now in charge. As 2013 dawns it is apparent that my cohorts are no longer in control – nor am I. In describing the role of parents, I believe the Proverbist...
by Steve Williams | Jan 7, 2013 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Stair Technological High School was a newcomer on the Knoxville prep football scene in 1937, but it earned the respect of longtime powers like Knoxville High, Central and Young before it closed in 1951. Located in a big brick building at the...
by Joe Rector | Jan 7, 2013 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I sometimes remember when a bad dream would pull me from sleep and leave me scared witless in the dark. The urge to run to my parents’ bedroom and crawl in with them was strong, but not as strong as the fear that something would get me if I put one foot...
by Steve Hunley | Jan 7, 2013 | Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com It is a somber topic to start the New Year, but such an important one that I think it bears discussion. Like so many Americans across the country, few Knox Countians seem to notice that Knox County government has a...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 7, 2013 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Hers was one of the last Christmas cards we received just before Christmas, and it was special. So is she! We met Jessie several years ago at a local restaurant after church one Sunday. She was the server for our table, and something about her...
