by design | Aug 30, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Everything looks easy from a distance My friend, Ray Hill, who writes a great political history column for this newspaper, told me several years ago that I won the lottery with my parents. I had never thought of it in that...
by Ray Hill | Aug 30, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Once a reliably Democratic state, Tennessee was a battleground state in the 1964 election. Congressman Joe L. Evins of Tennessee’s Fourth Congressional District was designated President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign manager for the Volunteer State. At the...
by design | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “The first reaction to truth is hatred.” Tertullian (c 200 AD) Why do humans seem to preferentially dwell on what they lack rather than what they have? Recently, I’ve been thinking about positivity and the contrasting negativity, notably...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Occasionally I will talk with a potential client on the phone and they will tell me they would like to hire me to represent them in regard to their criminal charges. One of my first questions is, “What are your charges?” More often than you would...
by Mike Steely | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely If you’ve never been to Rock Island State Park, you’ve missed a very different park that has just about everything you’d expect plus some very special sites. Rock Island is located between Cookeville and McMinnville in the mountains along the Caney Fork...
by Ralphine Major | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Major
Never having to live through a pandemic By Ralphine Major It is one of the simple guidelines in our new, normal world—stay home. Doing so has provided plenty of time for families to reflect. Even amid the pandemic that has affected thousands of lives, a glance...
