by design | Mar 11, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘A little story that turned into a big story’ By Tom Mattingly Hearing about football and basketball recruiting can be a year-long obsession with sports fans. Sports writers and other media discuss recruiting nearly every day of the year. It’s often an...
by design | Mar 10, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley The REAL Threat To Our American Democracy These days we hear constantly about threats to our democracy. It’s time to boil these down and that’s easy to do. The people usually talking about the threats to our democracy are almost...
by design | Mar 10, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Republican Leader: Wallace White of Maine Wallace Humphrey White Jr. is little remembered today, but at one time he was the leader of Senate Republicans, at least in name. White could easily have come right out of central casting in Hollywood to play the role of a...
by design | Mar 4, 2024 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com A couple of years ago I wrote an article on why the progressive media insists that we capitalize the “b” in black when it refers to race. As was the case with the movement of DEI (diversity, equity...
by design | Mar 4, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Ukraine Has Received Mega-Billions From U.S., Other Countries By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com As of mid-January, global aid to Ukraine has reached what the Kiel Institute for the World Economy described as the “staggering” amount of $278 billion. This...
by design | Mar 4, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
Do or Die The world is too much with us. Walt Whitman By Dr. Jim Ferguson Punxsutawney Phil “said” to expect an early spring. He may be correct, but the Pennsylvania groundhog is only right ~50% of the time. My Lenten roses and daffodils are blooming and March seems...