by design | Oct 24, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
Turning down a bowl bid, even before it arrived By Tom Mattingly From 1958 through 1964, there were no bowl games for the Tennessee Volunteers. Not a single one. That’s what comes after records of 4-6, 5-4-1, 6-2-2, 6-4, 4-6, 5-5, and 4-5-1. That’s why the 1965 team...
by design | Oct 24, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
Visiting the Quillen VA Center in Johnson City A Day Away by Mike Steely As most military veterans know, the most local VA medical services in Knoxville are at the W. C. Tallent Outpatient Clinic near West Towne Mall. There are related veteran-care health offices in...
by design | Oct 23, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Kyle Ward: The State Should Keep Its Promise Commissioner Kyle Ward has a resolution before the Knox County Commission asking the State of Tennessee to finally live up to its promise after the closure of the mental health facility at Lakeshore. Not...
by design | Oct 23, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee and Right-to-Work, Part 4: The Tennessee Congressional Delegation and the Taft-Hartley Bill By Ray Hill Both Houses of Congress had passed the Taft-Hartley Bill, as both chambers had a majority of Republicans. The 1946 elections had been a terrific success...
by design | Oct 17, 2022 | Black, Columnist
Why some schools are teaching Critical Race Theory By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Critical race theory (CRT) is being used in many public-school systems as an excuse to deflect from their inability to teach our children how to read, how...
by design | Oct 17, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
Supreme Court On Prayer And Bible Reading II By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Last week I wrote about the U.S. Supreme Court cases in the 1960s which banned prayer and Bible reading in public schools. In the prayer case, all three levels of the New York...
