by Harold Black | Feb 22, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com President Biden is preaching unity out of one side of his mouth while out of the other side he and his party are driving wedges between the democrats and the Americans who did not vote for him. If Biden were Pinocchio, his...
by Jim Ferguson | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
For in him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28 Our days might come to 70 years, or 80 if our strength endures… Psalm 90:10 By Dr. Jim Ferguson I didn’t know the term influencer until the last year or so. Perhaps this is because I am largely absent from...
by Joe Rector | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector COVID-19 has just about worn all of us out. We aren’t used to being confined for such long periods of time. Many people haven’t been out except to the grocery store for a year. Yes, some have developed rather snippy, hateful dispositions, but although...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is always heartening to see. An entire week in women’s basketball is designated for teams to wear tee shirts with their team colors. Every shirt bears the same message: “We Back Pat.” The carefully chosen words reference the...
by Tom Mattingly | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly There was always a special feeling to working in the William B. Stokely Athletics Center with Haywood Harris and Bud Ford. Many, if not most, of us who worked there had walked the rolling hills of campus, had sat in the classrooms, and had a personal...
by Mark Nagi | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi It is just after midnight local time as I write this article from 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. That makes it 5 a.m. in Knoxville. I’m coming back from a vacation in Hawaii. This was my first time out there. It took me 48 years to make the journey...
