by design | Dec 17, 2012 | News, The Daily Focus
Rather than a clipboard, carbon copy forms and a digital camera, Knox County Codes officials now go to building and codes inspection sites equipped with an iPad loaded with a special app developed by Knox County’s Information Technology Department. The app is being...
by design | Dec 16, 2012 | Archived Editions, Archives
Please click here to view this week’s entire Focus. Click here to view photos from the Seymour Christmas Parade. Focus launches 24/7 By Focus Staff Could you use some ‘good’ news? We thought so. With that in mind, The Focus is pleased to announce the launch of...
by design | Dec 16, 2012 | Archives, FOCUS Weekly Poll
By Focus Staff Since the first Knoxville Focus poll revealed a majority of South Knoxvillians support an extension of the James White Parkway, a wave of stories have appeared in local news media. A host of politicians quickly announced their opposition to an...
by design | Dec 16, 2012 | Archives
Please click here for larger view of TDOT’s proposed extension. By Focus Staff After almost a month of opponents coming from seemingly every direction possible, support for the proposed James White Parkway Extension remains strong. To date Knox County Mayor Tim...
by Ray Hill | Dec 16, 2012 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill It seems highly unlikely anyone could be elected to any office today if he or she exhibited just a few of the eccentricities that were a part of James Hamilton Lewis. Lewis was even for his time somewhat eccentric in his appearance and dress, but he...
by design | Dec 16, 2012 | Archives
By Tasha Mahurin The West Knox Republican Club’s annual Holiday dinner, held last week at Rothchild Catering and Conference Center, had an altogether inclusive flair this year. Members from across the Knox County Republican party gathered to celebrate the holiday...
by design | Dec 16, 2012 | Archives
By Ken Lay MURFREESBORO— The South Doyle rugby club ended a six-month journey with a State Championship at Middle Tennessee State University recently. The Cherokees played in a grueling Tennessee Rugby Association Olympic Rugby Sevens title on Saturday, Dec. 8....
by design | Dec 16, 2012 | Does it work?, The Daily Focus
For the past three weeks I have been experimenting with Youtube hypnosis videos. While my experiments were very unscientific, I did gain a lot of insight into hypnosis and my own mental attitude. In my experiment, I focused on two issues- sleep and confidence. To...
by design | Dec 15, 2012 | News, The Daily Focus
Knox County’s Holiday Festival of Lights started to shine brightly tonight at The Cove at Concord Park with a special kick-off event during which Knox County Commission Chairman Tony Norman flipped the switch to turn on the lights and start the festival....
by design | Dec 14, 2012 | News, The Daily Focus
Driving down Commerce Street in Nashville earlier this week, I screamed, “turn up the radio”, to my friend as two artists who I profiled in The Focus over a year ago “Megan and Liz” filtered through the radio. Later that day, I...
