by design | Mar 14, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is the month of St. Patrick’s Irish holiday, the month of spring breaks for schools, the month of strong and fierce winds, and the month of long-awaited basketball tournaments! With tournament games canceled during much of the COVID pandemic,...
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Big Turnout for Bud It is no surprise former Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong would draw a big crowd on his home turf. Jack and Joyce Huddleston hosted a meet and greet at the Corryton Community Center in the 8th District last week for...
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The folks who read this column regularly are some of God’s gentlepeople and highly discerning. That is my opinion, yet I will be positively shocked if a single reader remembers Arthur Wergs Mitchell. One of the most interesting aspects of history to me...
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson By Dr. Jim Ferguson I find it easier to write when something comes to mind rather than waiting for perhaps a more noteworthy topic closer to deadline....
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com In my mailbox were flyers from a group “U.S. Term Limits” urging my local state representatives to support congressional term limits. Their website says that resolutions have been introduced in 17 states....
by design | Mar 13, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Obviously, after Jesus Christ, I thought my dad was the greatest man who ever lived. From the time I was a small boy, I suppose I wanted to be as much like him as possible. I fell short in many ways, but one area in which I...
