by design | Apr 4, 2022 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams I never thought I would be saying this, but I’m going to miss Mickey Dearstone doing the Lady Vols’ play-by-play on radio. For years he got on my nerves with his constant criticism of the referees, and I suppose I took it personal since I was a high...
by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley More Needed Than a Name Change and Haircut To thinking people, it is already abundantly clear the Left in this country has lost its tether to reality some time ago. As I indicated in an earlier column, the Left in America long ago divorced Reason and...
by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For forty years, Brazilla Carroll Reece had been the congressman from the highly Republican First Congressional District of Tennessee with a few interruptions. Carroll Reece had first gone to Congress in 1920 after beating an entrenched incumbent in a...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com As if the month of March does not have enough distractions with the unpredictable basketball tournaments, this year Mother Nature decided to add to the drama. After spring-like temperatures teased us for a few days, a huge snow...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
I’m not as optimistic about the future as I was in the past. Yogi Berra By Dr. Jim Ferguson I am not a numerologist. However, there’s something about numbers as multiples of ten. Example’s are a 50th birthday or a 25th anniversary. Of course there are...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com How poor are the American poor? The 2020 Census says that 34 million Americans live in poverty. The official poverty line for a family of four is $27,750 or $6,937 per person. Add $4,720 for each...
