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The Knoxville Focus for Monday, July 17, 2017

by Steve Hunley | Jul 17, 2017 | Archived Editions, Archives, Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

Thank you UT Veterinary Medical Center By Steve Hunley publisher@knoxfocus.com If like me, you have a pet you realize that precious creature is a part of the family. Regular readers of The Focus will recall the frequent mentions of my little Jack Russell terrier,...

School Discipline Policy Makes A Big Difference

by Steve Hunley | Jul 9, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley This week the Knox County Board of Education is expected to vote on the disciplinary policy for our schools. Make no mistake about it, this is a very important issue with potentially far reaching effects. The board is being pushed to hurry this along...

School Board Needs To Slow Down Discipline Changes

by Steve Hunley | Jul 2, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley For sometime now the Knox County School Board has been prodded to change existing discipline policies.  A group of people claiming to represent “the community” have been pushing hard to make significant changes in policies that are now in place to...

Jeff Sessions Ends Illegal Practice

by Steve Hunley | Jun 25, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced the Department of Justice will no longer engage in the practice of “third party settlements.”  This was a common practice by the Department of Justice when Eric Holder was the Attorney General under the...

Sometimes it comes down to no accounting

by Steve Hunley | Jun 18, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Lots of folks have heard about the State of California threatening to secede from the Union.  Personally, I don’t think there’d be that many people sorry to see them go.  Recently, the California State Senate passed a universal healthcare bill;...

Why Trump Took Us Out of Paris Climate Agreement

by Steve Hunley | Jun 11, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley   President Donald Trump was looking out for the United States by taking us out of the Paris Climate Change Accord.  First of all, the agreement was not an “accord” in any sense; it was a treaty.  The reason it was referred to as an “accord” in...
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