by Steve Hunley | Aug 25, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The biggest issue in the coming City of Knoxville elections is, without a doubt, Recode. Knoxville’s longest serving mayor, Victor Ashe, has appropriately termed it a massive “rezoning” package and indeed it does affect virtually every property within...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 25, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
It has come to my attention, through social and other media, that in last week’s Publisher’s Position I incorrectly identified 2019 city council candidate Amelia Parker as having dropped the “F bomb” while addressing city council about an issue at a council meeting in...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 18, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
They Are on the Ballot By Steve Hunley Whether you believe it or not, there is a socialist movement in Knoxville; in fact, there is a ticket of socialist candidates running for city council. They refer to it as the “City Council Movement” without referring to...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 11, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
ROAD BLOCKED Parking reduced at New Harvest early voting location By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com It is a shame how few people vote in City of Knoxville elections. That trend has been spiraling steadily downward in recent years. Considering that,...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 11, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley I was trying to remember which presidential candidate promised “a chicken in every pot” and checked with our residential historian and my memory was correct, it was Herbert Hoover. Hoover, enjoying the “Republican prosperity” of the 1920s, won a huge...