College Athletics Changing for the Worse

By Mark Nagi I’m not good with change. Never have been. Never will be. I was sad when Rita’s Bakery closed its doors. I went to the Tazewell Pike store a few times a year for over a decade, picking up fancy sugar cookies for my daughter’s birthdays. It was a special...

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...