by design | Nov 20, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Realistic Earnings By Joe Rector Jim and I have worked since we were in the eighth grade. The first job was on a farm cutting weeds, moving rocks, and breaking ponies. Mr. Long paid us little for our work, and our parents paid more than we earned to doctors as they...
by design | Nov 20, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Memories Back through the years, I go wonderin’ once again, back to the seasons of my youth… Dolly Parton from “Coat of Many Colors” By Dr. Jim Ferguson All I remember about Copenhagen is the iconic little mermaid statue in the city’s harbor and the best caviar I’ve...
by design | Nov 19, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Anemic City Elections The City of Knoxville elections have come and gone and hardly anybody noticed it. The lack of interest on the part of city voters in the off-year is matched only by their conspicuous absence. The fact so...
by design | Nov 19, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Senatorial Bloodhound: Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire By Ray Hill Almost certainly, hardly any reader will recall Charles William Tobey, but at one time he was a member of the first congressional committee to become a television sensation, which was headed by...
by design | Nov 13, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Will It Take 10,000 More To Be Killed? By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” – General Dwight Eisenhower in a speech to the Canadian Club in...
by design | Nov 13, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Israel and Hamas By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Hamas committed an unspeakable evil. It targeted defenseless civilians for extermination. How anyone, regardless of their feelings toward Israel, could sympathize with this barbaric act is...
