by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Congress Passes Historically Bad Bill By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Congress has proven once again that the easiest thing in the world to do is to spend other peoples’ money. The one-trillion, seven hundred-billion dollar bill passed in Washington on...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Twilight Zone -No man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress. Mark Twain By Dr. Jim Ferguson As a writer of science fiction, I often imagine what it might be like...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Rector lips By Joe Rector One of the things I love about my wife Amy is that she is slow to anger. Perhaps that’s the reason we’ve been married for so long. The Good Lord knows I’ve done and said enough things over the years to make her pop a blood vessel. Unlike my...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Major
Wrapping up 2022, Greeting 2023! By Ralphine Major Ho! Ho! Ho! It really did snow! A trace amount two days before Christmas and light snow the day after bookended the highly anticipated Christmas Day with white. Though a sharp contrast to the heavy-laden...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Nagi
Lumps of Coal All Around By Mark Nagi The Christmas season is finishing up but there is still time to hand out lumps of coal for those in the sporting world. We’ll do this for no rhyme or reason, on a local, national, and even international scale. If they played...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Spring practice started when? By Tom Mattingly In the spring of 1936, Maj. Robert R. Neyland had returned to Knoxville looking to pick up where he had left off in his first tenure as head coach of the University of Tennessee football team (1926-34). He had...
