by design | Sep 19, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
An important question By Tom Mattingly My wife and I celebrated a significant milestone in the 2022 season-opening game against Ball State. Each of us celebrated our 50th anniversary as season ticket holders, dating from the first game of the 1972 season, the 28-21...
by design | Sep 18, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Back to the Basics Needed at Knox County Schools Nobody can be happy with the State of Tennessee’s assessment our school system was in the bottom 5% of all state school districts last year. That ranking is based on things like...
by design | Sep 18, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Burning Down Washington, D.C. By Ray Hill Those cities which are also capitols for their respective countries are always highly cognizant of several things, not the least of which are social status and one’s address. In 1922, one of the more elegant and desirable...
by design | Sep 12, 2022 | Black, Columnist
Poor Janet Yellen By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Janet Yellen is one of the few in Biden’s cabinet that is actually qualified for her job as Treasury Secretary. She has been president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and...
by design | Sep 12, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
A Disappointing Vote By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I have lived in Knox County since I was seven weeks old and, while I spend some time at our house on Cherokee Lake, I have always considered Knoxville and Knox County home. I have never missed voting in...
by design | Sep 12, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Memes When people show you what they are, believe it. Lisa Boothe Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Ronald Reagan By Dr. Jim Ferguson What a contrast between President Trump’s hope-filled Save America rally in Pennsylvania and Joe...
