by design | Sep 6, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
Tennessee has a State Geographer? By Jedidiah McKeehan I am assuming there are not too many people who read the Tennessee Code Annotated (that’s the name for the collection of all Tennessee specific laws) for leisure. If you did, even if you are an attorney, you may...
by design | Sep 6, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
A number of significant, exciting, and occasionally disappointing moments By Tom Mattingly The 1972 football season had a number of significant, exciting, and occasionally disappointing moments nearly every week. The final record was 10-2, with a No. 8 national...
by design | Sep 6, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
Tennessee Starts Strong, Looks to Pittsburgh By Mark Nagi For the second straight season, the Tennessee Volunteers got an early start with a weeknight matchup against a MAC team. For the second straight season, a blowout victory was in the cards. 92,236 fans packed...
by design | Sep 5, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Kincannon… the Tax and Spend Mayor At the corner of Gay Street and Summit Hill Drive downtown is the Cradle of Country Music Park, which is a peaceful half-acre plot of land with five trees that have been here for...
by design | Sep 5, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fall of Congressman Clifford Davis, V By Ray Hill Cliff Davis was sixty-six years old as he faced voters in the Democratic primary in August of 1964. For forty years, Cliff Davis had been a political favorite of the people of Shelby County, but his popularity was...
by design | Aug 29, 2022 | Black, Columnist
Black-Diallo-Miller Residence Hall By Harold Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com On August 4, 2022, my alma mater the University of Georgia held ceremonies naming its newest residence hall, Black-Diallo-Miller Hall honoring the first blacks to enroll as...