by design | May 15, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Fun and games on the road with the Volunteers By Tom Mattingly The stadiums where the Vols play are ancient and creaking, built in sections over the years, designed for football and nothing else. There are the echoes of Bob Neyland at Tennessee, Wallace Wade and Bear...
by design | May 14, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Knox County Doesn’t Need A Tax Increase With little fanfare, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs has released his proposed budget, which reaches $1 billion. It’s an increase of $90 million more than last year’s budget, without a tax increase. The budget...
by design | May 14, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill There are those who remember Paul Wellstone, the United States senator from Minnesota, who died, along with his wife and daughter, while campaigning for reelection in 2002 when his chartered airplane crashed. Wellstone, however, was not the first United...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Excellence in higher education is hard to define. How can you tell if a professor is doing a good job? I’ve always said that so long as my students didn’t run from the room with their hands over their...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Regular readers of my column know that my wife, Vickie, and I got married last May 20th after we both had lost our previous spouses to very serious illnesses – her husband to Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and my wife to strokes and...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Going Aboard the Titanic A Day Way by By Mike Steely Promoted as the safest ship ever built, the Titanic sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg on its way from England to America. It’s been featured in various movies, television specials, books and family...
