How Did I Get So Out of Touch?

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com It must be the awards season. On TV, the Country Music Awards were hyped. Then we had the Oscars where the motion picture industry gives itself awards and where Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Then we had...

Some memories from the 50s

By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few Sundays ago, I was invited to eat lunch after church at the home of Bob and Gail Winter in East Knox County. We had a wonderful lunch of pot roast, potatoes, carrots, onions, coleslaw, rolls and brownies with hot fudge...

Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley   Out of Touch Local Democrat One Democrat candidate for County Mayor, Debbie Helsley, has announced what everybody locally has been waiting for: her solution to climate change.  A press release heralding Helsley’s “Bold Climate Agenda for Knox...

The New Kid on the Block

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. Henry Ford By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a new kid on the block in Knoxville, perhaps unknown to...