By Steve Hunley More Needed Than a Name Change and Haircut To thinking people, it is already abundantly clear the Left in this country has lost its tether to reality some time ago. As I indicated in an earlier column, the Left in America long ago divorced Reason and...
Farragut eyes another state softball crown
By Steve Williams Farragut High’s 2022 softball team may not be as good as last year’s state championship team, but the current Lady Admirals are still good enough to repeat as state champs. That’s how Farragut Coach Nick Green sized up things after last...
The End of an Era: The Passing of Carroll Reece
By Ray Hill For forty years, Brazilla Carroll Reece had been the congressman from the highly Republican First Congressional District of Tennessee with a few interruptions. Carroll Reece had first gone to Congress in 1920 after beating an entrenched incumbent in a...
Dogwood Arts Festival kicks off with ribbon-cutting
By Ken Lay Spring is here and the Dogwood Arts Festival has returned to Knoxville. The festival, an annual event in East Tennessee for nearly seven decades, officially kicked off Thursday afternoon at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Some gusty winds couldn’t temper the...
Versatile Belyea signs with Chattanooga State
By Steve Williams When it comes to softball, Macy Belyea is like a Swiss Army knife. She’s very versatile. The Powell senior signed scholarship papers with Chattanooga State Community College in a ceremony at the PHS auditorium March 25. Belyea transferred to...
A Different Kind of Gambling
By Joe Rector I don’t gamble. The reason has been told before, but in case anyone might have forgotten why, here is the brief story. As a 16-year-old, I worked at the city maintenance department with other teens. We cut weeds, hauled trash, and cleaned areas around...
The Knoxville Focus for March 28, 2022
Pay raise for deputies before commission By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Today’s Knox County Commission agenda includes a possible pay increase for deputies, a reduction in fines for ambulances arriving late to hospitals, and a final closing date...
Publisher’s Positions
By Steve Hunley Candidate Residency Requirements will Change with New Legislation The hot mess that is the race for the 5th Congressional District is only getting messier. As this is written, the Tennessee State Senate and the House of Representatives are poised to...
Gibbs tames Tigers again – this time at UT
By Steve Williams Gibbs High’s baseball program picked up where it left off at the end of the 2021 season as the Eagles notched a 2-1 win over rival Pigeon Forge this year. At the Spring Fling in Murfreesboro last May, Gibbs defeated the Tigers 14-8 for the TSSAA...
The Lawyer’s Lawyer: Attorney General Roy H. Beeler
Tennessee is the only state in the country where the Supreme Court selects the attorney general. In many states, the state attorney general is elected by the voters; some are appointed by the governor and some are elected by legislatures. Tennessee’s state attorney...
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Smoky Mountain Home Health and Hospice Celebrates 30 years
Since 1982, Smoky Mountain...
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Karns LL teams are battling for state berth
By Steve Williams Karns is...
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The Knoxville Focus: Monday, August 13, 2012
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92 Boxes of Love
More than 20 volunteers...
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South-Doyle Delivers Shutout over Heritage
By Adam Sullivan It’s not...
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Rosie’s World
Rosie Moore celebrated her...