KNOXVILLE—President Obama will announce today that the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will lead the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, or IACMI, a $259 million public-private partnership. The Institute reflects a $70 million commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy and $189 million from IACMI’s partners. Supported by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing […]
Mayor Ralph McGill is awesome! Nobody can ever say this Mayor is star struck! My email to him and his back to me! At Jan 9, 2015, 1:31:12 AM, Dan Andrews<‘andrewsd@knoxfocus.com‘> wrote: Just checking, did the Town of Farragut get invited to the POTUS event? Dan from: Ralph McGill to: “andrewsd@knoxfocus.com” <andrewsd@knoxfocus.com> date: Fri, Jan […]
KTA to elect officers By Mike Steely The Knoxville Transit Authority, made up of members appointed by the city mayor, will elect a new chair, vice-chair, and a recording secretary in their January meeting. In a brief regular meeting Thursday the authority voted to select a nominating committee to include members Karen Eberle, Mark Hairr […]
*Please note that on Friday, the President of the United States will also be in town! Launch Update http://www.spacex.com/webcast/ During the terminal count engineers observed drift on one of the two thrust vector actuators on the second stage that would likely have caused an automatic abort. Engineers called a hold in order to take a […]
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Vivian J. Calloway Docket Number 75771-2 Notice is hereby given that on the 19th day of December, 2014, letters testamentary in respect of the Estate of Vivian J. Calloway who died Nov 14, 2014, were issued the undersigned by the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Knox County, […]
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law Premises liability refers to certain situations where the owner of property is legally responsible for injury or loss to a party while on the premises. This legal situation falls under the category of negligence actions. According to Chapter 18 of Tennessee Elements of Action (West Publishing 2010), to successfully […]
Sign Task Force to meet again By Mike Steely After almost three years of revisions and debate in public meetings, Knoxville’s voluminous Sign Ordinance proposal seems to be no closer to being passed than it was in February 2012, when a task force was appointed to revise the various ordinances. The task force’s initial idea […]
By Steve Hunley The Knoxville City Council will consider expanding the current ban on panhandling. Currently the law prohibits panhandling that is considered overly aggressive. While that is somewhat vague, the law also restricts panhandling after dark, or near banks, bus stations, as well as restaurant patios. The expansion of the ban would extend to […]
By Ray Hill 2015 marks the one-hundredth year since the people of Tennessee cast their ballots to select a candidate for the United States Senate. There had previously been non-binding preferential primaries, as senators were still elected by the state legislature. The 1915 primary was unusual in two respects; first it was no ordinary election […]
By Mike Steely The Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission will consider a long agenda of various requests when they meet in a workshop and their regular meeting this week. One of those items is a use-on-review of plans for the University of Tennessee’s Cherokee Farm Innovation Campus. The MPC agenda workshop is Tuesday at 11:45 […]