by design | May 28, 2019 | The Daily Focus
The Office of Neighborhoods kicks off the 2020 Neighborhood Small Grants Program (NSGP) this year, with the first opportunity to attend a mandatory grant workshop on Thursday, May 30. The NGSP allows neighborhoods to apply for up to $3,000, to tackle a...
by design | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Motown icon Aretha Franklin once sang, “Change, Change, Change…” No, sorry, that was “Chain, Chain, Chain…Chain of Fools.” My mistake. However, change is the modern and more relevant mantra. The global warming cabal even had to alter the name...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I would be lying if I told you that the legal system is fast moving system. Although some cases can get resolved in a matter of weeks, it can often take months, if not years, for a case to go from beginning to end. Although, there are many...
by Ralphine Major | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The news was reported just days before the start of Memorial Day Weekend. Remains of another American hero had come home. The images were touching as the scene at the airport unfolded. A flag-draped casket rolled past a gathering of family...
by Steve Williams | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Jack Tate had on a short sleeve plaid shirt with stripes of Maroon, White and Grey running through it when I met him for a recent interview. That wasn’t surprising. Jack has been Bearden High through and through for parts of five decades. Tate and...
by Steve Hunley | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
By Steve Hunley We have many new readers in the past few months from our in depth coverage of Recode Knoxville. For our readers who haven’t heard about Recode yet, it is the wiping out of our current Knoxville zoning code that has sixty years of case law protecting...
by design | May 27, 2019 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Penny Schwinn visits South Knox Elementary By Ken Lay Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn made a stop in Knoxville Wednesday morning and came to South Knoxville Elementary School. Her stay was brief but the morning was busy for Schwinn, who gave the opening...
by Steve Hunley | May 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The impending resignation of Glen Casada, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, has its sad aspects, whether anybody wants to admit it or not. Democrats are rejoicing because they think the fall of Glen Casada will reap political dividends...
by design | May 27, 2019 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Mark your calendars because a local church is planning to celebrate 100 years in our community. Inskip Baptist Church, at 4810 Rowan Road in North Knoxville, is planning a Sunday celebration on June 9. Rev. Mike Segers, who has...
by Ray Hill | May 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill In February of 1945, a war weary and sick Franklin D. Roosevelt was on his way to Crimea in the Soviet Union. Technically in the Ukraine, the Crimea is on a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and was once the playground of the Russian Czars...
