by Mike Steely | Apr 16, 2016 | Steely, The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely Over the past few years Knoxville neighborhoods and businesses have become more and more concerned about the rapid growth of alternative financial service locations. Back in February the city council asked the Metropolitan Planning Commission to look at...
by Mike Steely | Apr 3, 2016 | Archived Editions, Archives, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Drop the beer distance ordinance? Council says ‘Not Yet.’ By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com It is apparent that the distance between a beer retail store and places like schools, hospitals, churches and mortuaries may someday be changed but a 5-4 vote Tuesday...
by Mike Steely | Apr 3, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mikes Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Knoxville is celebrating 225 years this year and you probably don’t realize that the city and its county have some 111 places on the National Register of Historic Sites. That includes not only historic homes and buildings but also...
by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com It has been said that if it wasn’t for Tennessee there would be no Texas. That saying refers to the influx of people from our state to what was then the northern territory of Mexico and the number of those people who promoted and...
by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The city’s two-year pilot project to allow and regulate food trucks is on the way to becoming an official ordinance and, overall, the trial program has been very successful. But the Community Forum has some hard questions about...
by Mike Steely | Mar 27, 2016 | Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Mike Brown is known as being the “bulldog” of the Knox County Commission due to his eight years of speaking his mind as commissioner. His words are often colored with unique, descriptive and folksy phrasing that gets his point...
