by design | Aug 25, 2013 | Archives, FOCUS Weekly Poll
By Focus Staff This week’s Knoxville Focus poll asked the question, “As a voter, do you consider yourself a Democrat, Republican or Independent?” Just over fifty percent of those polled said they consider themselves Republicans. Independents slightly outpolled...
by design | Aug 25, 2013 | Archives
This September, the nation’s largest Labor Day weekend Fireworks Festival will once again launch from the Henley Bridge for the first time in two years due to the construction and remodeling of the bridge since January 2011. Visit Knoxville, the Tennessee Department...
by Ray Hill | Aug 25, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill West Virginia was once one of the more reliably Republican states in the country. Following the Great Depression and the rise of the machine headed by U. S. Senator Matthew Mansfield Neely of Fairmont, the election of 1932 changed the political...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 25, 2013 | Archives, Hunley
By Steve Hunley The media barrage has begun and Superintendent of Schools Jim McIntyre is doing his best to spin the drop in ACT scores in Knox County. Like a stressed circus poodle, Dr. McIntyre is spinning, jumping, and barking that the results don’t mean a thing in...
by design | Aug 25, 2013 | Archives
By Steve Williams Karns and Hardin Valley Academy became an “instant rivalry” in football just a few years ago, and the Beavers and Hawks will add another chapter to one of Knox County’s newest high school sports rivalries Friday night at Hardin Valley. “Yes, it...
