by Ralphine Major | Sep 8, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Following is my tribute to legendary criminal defense attorney, the late William Zane Daniel, which was first published in The Knoxville Focus on 9-5-2006 shortly after his death. It was my first feature ever published in the Focus. It was a pink...
by Joe Rector | Sep 8, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector It’s been 50 years since my class graduated from high school. Just like students in the 2020 class with their proms and graduations, we’ve fretted over having to cancel the celebration of such an important event. Things look up just a bit right now,...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Sep 8, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan On TV you will occasionally hear law enforcement discussing a suspect’s criminal history and they will say something like, “well, he had a breaking and entering charge when he was 18.” If the cop saying this is hip, they will shorten breaking and...
by design | Sep 8, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. During the 1957-58 flu season, I was in the fifth grade at Chillhowee School in East Knoxville, there was a worldwide pandemic then that originated in China called the Asian flu. Both the US and world populations were only a little over 60% of...
by Steve Hunley | Sep 7, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley New County Commission Chair Congratulations to Larsen Jay, the newly elected Chairman of the Knox County Commission! It was a victory for the new over the old, with Jay winning the chairmanship over veteran commissioner Randy Smith. While Smith had...
by Ray Hill | Sep 7, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill 1964 was a presidential election year and Lyndon Johnson was running hard to win a term in his own right against Arizona senator Barry Goldwater. Tennessee was slowly, but surely, becoming a two-party state. The Republican nominee for president had...
