by Steve Hunley | Jun 9, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The people of Knoxville and Knox County ought to be thankful for the service of State Representative Martin Daniel. All too often the doings of our representatives in Nashville escape our attention because local media fails to report it. The actions...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 2, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley To my mind, one of the things that makes a community worthwhile is having a sense of community. That is something we try to do here at The Focus, as our focus is almost entirely local in scope and nature. The Focus has a reporter at every meeting of...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 2, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Recode Round 2 was held on Thursday, May 30 and it exceeded the six and a half hours of Recode Round 1 on May 14 with a marathon nine and a half hour comedy where city council tried to fix over fifty errors in Recode. It was another very long session...
by Steve Hunley | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
By Steve Hunley We have many new readers in the past few months from our in depth coverage of Recode Knoxville. For our readers who haven’t heard about Recode yet, it is the wiping out of our current Knoxville zoning code that has sixty years of case law protecting...
by Steve Hunley | May 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The impending resignation of Glen Casada, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, has its sad aspects, whether anybody wants to admit it or not. Democrats are rejoicing because they think the fall of Glen Casada will reap political dividends...
by Steve Hunley | May 19, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley For the past two and a half years, the City of Knoxville has been nudging along one of the most comprehensive and sweeping plans surrounding property use. Known as “Recode,” this nefarious plan has gone through more incarnations than the Devil...
