by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee had gone Republican in both the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. Volunteer State Democrats had been especially shocked when Adlai Stevenson had lost Tennessee in 1956 as home-state U. S. senator Estes Kefauver had been the vice...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Bearden High School girls basketball coach Justin Underwood couldn’t hide his happiness Wednesday night. And who could blame him? Underwood saw his team cruise to the Region 2-4A Championship with a 56-27 victory over Kingston Pike rival Farragut before a...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I wish Vladimir Putin could have seen the video and heard the heartbreaking cries of anguish from the mother in Ukraine as she followed her six-year-old daughter into the emergency room where she died, killed by...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com That Anthony Fauci is truth-challenged should come as no surprise since he is a life-long unelected politician. The old adage now applies: how can you tell if Fauci is lying? His lips are moving. If you...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay The local wrestling community lost one of its legendary figures on Saturday as Terry Bundren, aka Terry Landell passed away Saturday, Feb. 26. He was 59. Bundren was a longtime fixture in East Tennessee’s wrestling community and a founder of Tennessee...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass By Dr. Jim Ferguson Did you watch it? I didn’t. I never liked watching the annual Presidential SOTU addresses, but I always felt it was my duty as a citizen. That...
