Gibbs Gathering of 2022

By Ralphine Major Sounds like fun! On July 30, 2022, a multi-class reunion is scheduled for all the Gibbs High School classes that have been graduated 50 years or more! The event will take place from 4:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at Corryton Church, 7615 Foster Road,...

A Deer in the Road

By Joe Rector The Karns community is up in arms over the proposed construction of Belltown. This development is supposed to be a community within itself. I’ve never known what that is, but the developer, Smithbilt Homes, declares it offers the best of living. It also...

Summertime

The left views conservative free-speech as violence. They look at their violence as free-speech. Michael Anton By Dr. Jim Ferguson Summertime is the season of Gordian Knots. No, I’m not using the metaphor of an intractable problem. Nor am I delving into the Ancient...

Happy Birthday America.

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Happy Birthday America. It’s your 246th birthday. America is unique. Never before had a country been established with the individual, rather than the government, as its nexus. In America the government was...

Any Discrimination, For or Against, Is Wrong

By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In the upside-down world of today, a person can sometimes get in more trouble and controversy for saying something that is true than for saying some politically-correct falsehood. This happened recently to James Patterson,...