by Steve Hunley | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley City Mayor Indya Kincannon has caved in to the ultimatum of the radical leftists who have demanded school security officers be withdrawn from our school campuses. Kincannon sent a letter to Superintendent Bob Thomas, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs,...
by Ray Hill | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Brazilla Carroll Reece had served Tennessee’s First Congressional District in Congress for ten years before losing the 1930 general election to Independent candidate Oscar Byrd Lovette. It was the first time in 52 years any candidate aside from a...
by John Duncan | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Richard Nixon was probably the most hated man in American politics until Donald Trump was elected president. Yet, like Trump, Nixon was also loved by millions, and the last time he ran for election, in 1972, he won Tennessee overwhelmingly,...
by Jim Ferguson | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Nothing connects the country like country. Ken Burns By Dr. Jim Ferguson A reader thanked me for last week’s essay about the Tennessee River and travel. In the essay I used Forrest Gump’s metaphor regarding life as a “box of chocolates.” Well, this week’s essay from...
by design | May 9, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Have you ever seen the proper retirement of a United States flag? Did you know there is an official way to do it? On Saturday, May 15 the American Legion Post and the cadets of the Army JROTC Cherokee Battalion...
by Ralphine Major | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major I never knew her except through pictures and stories from our mother. Mandy Smith Torbett was our maternal grandmother. Originally from Anderson County, Tennessee, she moved to Knoxville when she and our grandfather, Tecil C. Torbett from...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Jedidiah McKeehan On one of my very first days working in the legal world I remember seeing a paralegal prepare a new lawsuit to be filed at the Court. Out of curiosity I picked it up and started flipping through it and I asked her, “why do you have three copies?”...
by design | May 9, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay The 2021 high school boys soccer season is now in the rear view mirror as local teams brought an end to their respective campaigns Thursday night. Here’s a look at some regular-season finales and the week ahead as district tournaments open around the area....
by design | May 9, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams A Sunday afternoon makeup game on May 2 couldn’t have worked out any better. “The game time today was 2:02,” said Central High softball coach James Swaney after his Lady Bobcats’ 8-1 win over Clinton at Fountain City Ball Park. “I did that for...
by design | May 9, 2021 | The Daily Focus
WHO: Produced by Tennessee Stage Company WHAT: Shakespeare “Off” The Square, featuring Twelfth Night and The Tempest WHERE: Outdoors at Ijams Nature Center 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920 WHEN: 7: 30 p.m....
