Advance Knox growth plan passes committee By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Almost 80,000 new Knox County residents are expected over the next 20 years. The need for new housing, the development of farmland for housing, and how and where those changes...
Publisher’s Positions
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Idiotnomics We’ve all heard about the wizardry of “Bidenomics” and the dunderheads in Washington are all wondering why folks aren’t dancing in the streets for joy. Apparently, the dunderheads all employ illegal aliens to do their...
Catching Up With Vice Mayor Tommy Smith
Catching Up With Vice Mayor Tommy Smith By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com First District Councilman Tommy Smith was selected by his fellow council members in the reorganization meeting recently to become the new vice mayor. After being appointed to...
John Sparkman of Alabama
John Sparkman of Alabama By Ray Hill For forty-two years, John Sparkman served the people of Alabama in either the U.S. House of Representatives or the United States Senate. An enthusiastic advocate for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Sparkman was considered a...
Murphey has sights set on fourth state crown
Murphey has sights set on fourth state crown By Steve Williams Ella Murphey is on the homestretch of reaching a four-year goal she set as a freshman wrestler at Hardin Valley Academy in 2020-21. That goal was to match what Kenya Sloan had accomplished in girls...
Carter girls roll past Gibbs ‘again’ to take region title
Carter girls roll past Gibbs ‘again’ to take region title By Steve Williams It’s not easy defeating a rival five out of five times in a season. But that’s what Carter High’s girls bowling team had to do Jan. 8 to wrap up the Region 1 championship at Fountain Lanes....
The Knoxville Focus for January 8, 2024
A miracle two decades in the making By Ken Leinart Miracle Ridge. To really understand the importance of the “Hallelujah” moment that created Miracle Ridge, you have to go back some 22 years. Hand Up For Women started in 2002 with a simple goal and has kept true to...
Publisher’s Positions
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Claudine Gay Resigns... Good Riddance Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, has offered up her resignation after her abysmal performance at a now notorious congressional hearing. Gay might have survived that episode had it not...
Lady Falcon trio leads comeback win at WB
Lady Falcon trio leads comeback win at WB By Steve Williams William Blount junior Savannah Darnell was putting on a “one-girl show” against Fulton on her home court last Wednesday night. When the Lady Falcons came into their locker room trailing by 17 points at...
Re-electing the Senator: The Final Campaign of William B. Bate
Re-electing the Senator: The Final Campaign of William B. Bate By Ray Hill By 1903, only two men had ever been elected to a fourth term in the United States Senate from the State of Tennessee: Isham G. Harris and William B. Bate. The two men had several things in...
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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...