by design | Apr 24, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Safety Patrol By Joe Rector I made a quick run through Facebook this afternoon, and in one post, someone had placed a photo of an orange plastic mesh belt and a metal piece pinned to it. Do you know what it is? If you do, you’re probably an older person. I doubt that...
by design | Apr 23, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Demolition Debbie Debbie Helsley, candidate for city council, wants to start tearing down neighborhoods inside Knoxville. That’s the inference in a social media post last week by Helsley’s campaign for city council, which featured a drawing of Europe...
by design | Apr 23, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
James W. Wadsworth of New York By Ray Hill The name James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. is rather reminiscent of “Gilligan’s Island” and Thurston Howell III. To say that James Wadsworth was well-connected is likely a gross understatement. His grandfather, James S. Wadsworth,...
by design | Apr 17, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Pothole Pete, the Green New Deal and Air Safety By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I’ve written often on being governed by incompetents. The current example is the failure of bank regulators to enforce banking regulations. Another obvious...
by design | Apr 17, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Trump Indictment Fueled By Hatred, Partisan Politics By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Donald Trump has said and done things in his personal life that his strongest supporters wish he had not said or done. Many liberals and leftists have said...
by design | Apr 17, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Family Wisdom My grieving will resume after Dollywood. Oakley By Dr. Jim Ferguson We recently had a death in our family. Not like the death in the autobiographical novel by Knoxvillian James Agee. Our pony Checkers was old and had been declining for some time, but the...
