by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com In 2008, Kyle Ward was a twenty-one-year-old senior in the second semester of his final year of college. Ward had plans to finish college when news came that a young man he had known for most of his life, a good...
by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
Previously printed on October 5, 2015 By Ray Hill Eleanor Medill Patterson was the first woman to successfully run a major metropolitan newspaper. Known as “Cissy” due to the nickname given to her in childhood by her brother, she was volatile, unpredictable,...
by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. K.T. McFarland told Maria Bartiromo on August 15 that we should have gotten out of Afghanistan in 2001 shortly after we responded in a very forceful way to the attacks of 9/11. McFarland was Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump and...
by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com The left is making clucking sounds about equity. The Biden administration has wholeheartedly embraced the concept with virtually every facet of government being charged with furthering equity. The pivoting to equity from...
by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
“We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop By Dr. Jim Ferguson Lately, I’ve been asking myself, is anything working? We live in the information age, but is it even reliable? One of my axioms (Fergisms) is to “Read widely, consider...
by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Bill Howard In its season-opening game at home Friday night against Webb School of Knoxville, Carter High School was down 14-0 at halftime. Twice quarterback Chandler Wilson threw touchdown passes, only to have them both called back because of penalties. The...
