by design | Jan 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Congressman Burchett Is Right Our own Congressman Tim Burchett didn’t have any kind words for TVA following the rolling blackouts over the Christmas Holidays which saw Knoxville and East Tennessee struggling through brutally cold weather. ...
by design | Jan 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, Part V By Ray Hill Texas native Dan Kuykendall had settled in Memphis, Tennessee. Like many others, Kuykendall came to Tennessee because of a job. Kuykendall had been a regional manager for Proctor & Gamble. ...
by design | Dec 27, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
COVID-19 Was Political From The Start By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Jane Fonda said just before the last Presidential election that “Covid was a gift to the left.” I believe that Covid-19 was used in a very political way right from the start. People...
by design | Dec 27, 2022 | Black, Columnist
Wither the LSAT By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Merry Christmas. The accrediting council of the American Bar Association voted 15-1 to recommend the elimination of the LSAT or any other standardized examination from the admission...
by design | Dec 27, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Hanging It Up We are what we repeatedly do. Historian Will Durant By Dr. Jim Ferguson Last week the Christmas spirit came to me. Each year I search for the spirit, and it finally comes, sometimes early and sometimes later. Jesus said, “Seek and you will find,” so I...
by design | Dec 27, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
Redbone By Joe Rector The first time I ever eyed Howard “Redbone” Cochran, he was walking across the main quad at Tennessee Tech. I’d seen football players before, but Redbone almost seemed freakish with his towering height and bulging muscles. His bright red hair...
