by Joe Rector | Apr 2, 2018 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Polls show that more and more Americans believe in the theory that the government is being influenced by “the deep state.” Those same polls show that nearly 3 out of 4 individuals don’t know what “the deep state” actually is. The situation is just...
by Mike Steely | Apr 2, 2018 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely After some 50 years of wandering around the Southeast I’ve visited many, many places that interested me or my wife. We’ve been in every Tennessee State Park except one, in many parks in the region’s states and many National Parks. Sometimes the...
by Ralphine Major | Apr 2, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is hard to believe winter is over! We were invited to speak at the Ossoli Circle Clubhouse; we introduced “Piddle Diddle, the Widdle Penguin, and the Texas Longhorns”—our latest book in the series—in an interview with Alan...
by Steve Williams | Apr 2, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams I’ve always heard time goes by faster when you’re busy or having a good time. Maybe that’s why Phillip Fulmer’s 100th day on the job as UT’s new Director of Athletics flew right past me. When I counted up the days a couple of weeks ago, I discovered...
by Mark Nagi | Apr 2, 2018 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Back on March 22nd, Tennessee announced that they had settled with now former athletics director John Currie on a contract buyout. Currie, who had technically been suspended with pay since December 1st, would end up receiving $2.5 million for...
by design | Apr 2, 2018 | Public Notice
Foreclosure notices NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE`S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated June 30, 2016, executed by Nicholas J. Jones, an unmarried man, to Charles E Tonkin,...
by design | Apr 2, 2018 | The Daily Focus
Longstreet-Zollicoffer Camp 87, Sons of Confederate Veterans, will have their monthly business meeting on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 9 a.m. at Confederate Memorial Hall (Bleak House), 3148 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. We will have a workday beginning at 9...
by design | Apr 2, 2018 | The Daily Focus
(Part 1 of an interview with TSSAA Executive Director Bernard Childress) By Steve Williams Bernard Childress once played in a state high school basketball tournament and once coached in one, but he never dreamed he would someday be the Executive Director of the...
by design | Apr 2, 2018 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Spangler greets supporters at Corryton campaign stop By Ken Lay Tom Spangler has dedicated the majority of his life to law enforcement and now he’s making a bid to become Knox County’s next sheriff. “I knew, from the time that I was in the Air Force, that I wanted to...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 2, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley There are a great many hard-working deputies in the Knox County Sheriff’s Department. Yet the recent controversy between the Knox County Pension Board and Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong illustrates an arrogant sense of entitlement and...
