by design | Dec 26, 2023 | Columnist, Major
Finding Christ in Christmas By Ralphine Major As the Christmas celebration closes in 2023, did you find Christ in Christmas this year? Perhaps you found Him while unwrapping a pretty package from under the tree. Perhaps you found Him during the Christmas program in...
by design | Dec 26, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Populisms By Dr. Jim Ferguson This will be my last Focus column of 2023. And even though there is little difference week to week, we are all, nonetheless, time-focused creatures. In his trilogy on the origins of Western Civilization, Thomas Cahill imagined a moment...
by design | Dec 26, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
On turning 77 years old By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com When does one become an old person? For me it was today, December 26, when I realized I am now 77 years old. By anyone’s standards that’s old. I was born in 1946 and supposedly may be the...
by design | Dec 26, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Merry Christmas By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com This Christmas, like all the ones before, I am grateful to have been blessed with great parents who had struggled to get an education and who made it easy for me and my brother to go to...
by design | Dec 26, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Democrats And Republicans Used To Get Along Better By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A worker at Holston Hills Country Club a few weeks ago told me I was the only Republican he ever voted for. Many Democrats over the years have said similar things like that...
by design | Dec 25, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Do As I Say, Not As I Do Joe Biden routinely has threatened to go after “tax cheats” and has called on the better-off to pay their fair share. Evidently, that doesn’t apply to First Son Hunter. Just about every member of the...