by design | Sep 24, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Frederick Gillet & the Fight for Speaker By Ray Hill The mutiny earlier this year inside the GOP caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives is not new, although it hasn’t happened in a long while. In fact, the last time it did occur was one hundred years...
by design | Sep 18, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
A Courageous Judge And Brave Lawyer By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com From 1969 to 1988 I was devoted to the law – first as a law student at George Washington University, and then as a lawyer and judge in Knoxville. Through all the years since, I have...
by design | Sep 18, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Whither the Braves? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I love baseball. Thus far my two favorite teams, the Atlanta Braves and the Baltimore Orioles, have the best record in their respective leagues. The Braves represent my hometown – even...
by design | Sep 18, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Going from ‘them’ to ‘us’ By Tom Mattingly Here’s an interesting question for all the armchair historians out there. Name an opposing quarterback who helped upset Tennessee in a bowl game and later became a Vol assistant coach. The quarterback in question is Bob...
by design | Sep 18, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
What do you think? Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic expression of Americanism. Without God, there could be no American form of government, nor American way of life. -President Dwight Eisenhower By Dr. Jim Ferguson Twenty-two years...
by design | Sep 18, 2023 | Columnist, Major
Remembering Walter Lambert, Man of Many Talents By Ralphine Major We would look for his table each year. He often left his signature red apron on the table alongside his cookbooks. It was at the Grainger County Tomato Festival where we first met the popular TV...
