Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley The Old Switcheroo Folks in South Knoxville are doing their best to fight off a developer’s effort to repurpose his property at the old South Knoxville High School.  Rick Dover owns the South High Assisted Living Facility, which is right smack dab in...

The Troubles

It’s not progressive, it’s creepy. Kat Timpf By Dr. Jim Ferguson Biden is back from his family vacation in Ireland, but his cringe-worthy remarks in Dublin, on April 13th, confusing a rugby team and Irish paramilitary units, caused me to think of the decades-long...

100 YEARS of McGinnis Bus Lines

100 YEARS of McGinnis Bus Lines By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com In a few days the school year will come to an end.  But while school is in session, the big, yellow school buses that transport students are a very important part of the school day. McGinnis Bus...

Not interested in driving

Not interested in driving By Joe Rector I’m forever amazed by the differences between generations. We old folks remember our first television sets and the introduction to color television. Amy and I finally bought a color TV after we married. Our children have always...

The recurring debt ceiling ‘crisis’

The recurring debt ceiling ‘crisis’ By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com We have again reached another so-called budgetary crisis where the Federal debt ceiling must rise or else risk the possibility of the government defaulting on its debt...