by design | Apr 9, 2023 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
A Day Away by Mike Steely Named for the former Tennessee Senator who served as president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the Andrew Johnson Highway begins when Asheville Highway splits and the northeast portion becomes the AJ Highway heading toward Jefferson...
by design | Apr 3, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Two unrelated, very amazing, maybe even shocking, apologies were issued in mid-March by widely read political commentators. The first by Naomi Wolf, had been viewed by 3.4 million when I wrote this column. Dr. Wolf was a...
by design | Apr 3, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Socialism: Caveat Emptor By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Socialists hate capitalism because it works so well. Capitalism’s critics living in capitalist economies complain and whine because capitalism produces prosperity. Socialism...
by design | Apr 3, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
It’s not what’s served, but who’s around the table that counts. Becky Ferguson By Dr. Jim Ferguson The only time I lived away from Knoxville was during medical school and internal medicine residency in Memphis, Tennessee. I don’t miss Memphis. And although I had lived...
by design | Apr 3, 2023 | Columnist, Major
‘The Last Supper’ Carving Returns Home to Clapps Chapel By Ralphine Major “What started in an artist’s workshop in Corryton, has traveled the South and made its way back to home,” Dr. Chris Stanfield shared. Dr. Stanfield is the Pastor of Clapps Chapel in Corryton,...
by design | Apr 3, 2023 | Columnist, McKeehan
Alienation of Affections By Jed McKeehan You may have heard of the legal term, “alienation of affections,” at some point, but what does this phrase mean? The dictionary definition states, “the diversion of a person’s affection from someone (as a spouse) who has...
