by Mark Nagi | May 24, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Back in January 2006, Tennessee’s men’s basketball team upset Florida 80-76, in one of the most exciting games ever played at Thompson-Boling Arena. Students waited in line for hours and were rewarded for their patience with that victory. The...
by Steve Hunley | May 23, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The Sentinel Squalls The Knoxville News-Sentinel has launched a series of print attacks against The Knoxville Focus. The reason is because the Knox County Commission is considering a resolution they feel threatens their near-monopoly on the...
by John Duncan | May 23, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) should host a dinner in Washington in honor of Shane Hazel. The dinner would be in appreciation for Mr. Hazel giving the Democrats control of the U.S. Senate. Mr. Hazel, for the 99% plus of people who have no idea who...
by Ray Hill | May 23, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For decades the Tennessee General Assembly was largely ruled by three men: Walter M. “Pete” Haynes of Decherd; I. D. Beasley of Carthage and James H. Cummings of Woodbury. Known as the “Unholy Trinity”, the three men were powerful legislators and highly...
by Jim Ferguson | May 23, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Anonymous modern proverb By Dr. Jim Ferguson In the 1720s and 1730s a movement swept the American colonies which historians would call The Great Awakening. Largely, it was a reaction to secular humanism and...
by Harold Black | May 23, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Howard Black blackh@knoxfocus.com For the second session in a row, the US House of Representatives voted along party lines to make the District of Columbia a state. Rumor has it that the District then decided not to have a state bird because they could not find one...
