By Ray Hill Tennessee had gone Republican in both the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. Volunteer State Democrats had been especially shocked when Adlai Stevenson had lost Tennessee in 1956 as home-state U. S. senator Estes Kefauver had been the vice...
By Ken Lay Bearden High School girls basketball coach Justin Underwood couldn’t hide his happiness Wednesday night. And who could blame him? Underwood saw his team cruise to the Region 2-4A Championship with a 56-27 victory over Kingston Pike rival Farragut before a...
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I wish Vladimir Putin could have seen the video and heard the heartbreaking cries of anguish from the mother in Ukraine as she followed her six-year-old daughter into the emergency room where she died, killed by...
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com That Anthony Fauci is truth-challenged should come as no surprise since he is a life-long unelected politician. The old adage now applies: how can you tell if Fauci is lying? His lips are moving. If you...
By Ken Lay The local wrestling community lost one of its legendary figures on Saturday as Terry Bundren, aka Terry Landell passed away Saturday, Feb. 26. He was 59. Bundren was a longtime fixture in East Tennessee’s wrestling community and a founder of Tennessee...
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass By Dr. Jim Ferguson Did you watch it? I didn’t. I never liked watching the annual Presidential SOTU addresses, but I always felt it was my duty as a citizen. That...
By Steve Williams Playing on one of the state’s best basketball teams that includes five college signees, Jenn Sullivan of Bearden High still stands out. Maybe it’s the extra things she does during a game that don’t show up as statistics in the paper or maybe it’s her...
Dr. Jon Rysewyk named next KCS superintendent By Ken Lay Knox County Schools has a new superintendent. He’s a familiar face in the district’s central office. The Knox County Board of Education has selected Dr. Jon Rysewyk as the school system’s next superintendent....
By Steve Hunley Congratulations, Jon Rysewyk The Knox County School system has a new superintendent. Dr. Jon Rysewyk has been the assistant superintendent since 2017. Six out of nine members of the Knox County Board of Education voted for Rysewyk. Jon Rysewyk is a...
By Steve Williams Basketball great Elston Turner was touched by the turnout for a street named in his honor by the City of Knoxville last week. Even a quiver could be detected in his opening comments. “Every time I come home I feel the love,” he would later say on his...
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