by design | Aug 25, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Coaching football By Joe Rector At the Doyle High School 50th reunion, I saw students whom I didn’t recognize after all these years. However, I did see a few football players who still had features from their teenage years. At DHS and at Karns High School, I coached...
by design | Aug 24, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Immigration Should be Very Selective The idea that everyone who wants to come to the United States to live should be welcomed with open arms without a second thought is as simplistic as it is wrong. And it is terrible public...
by design | Aug 24, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Homer T. Bone of Washington By Ray Hill Homer T. Bone served just under twelve years in the United States Senate and sat on the federal bench as a judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1944 until his death in 1970. A man devoted to his wife and son,...
by design | Aug 18, 2025 | Black, Columnist
What job growth? What inflation? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Far be it for me to say “I told you so,” but I told you so. I wrote that the monthly jobs report is usually a fabrication. The results come from surveys and are always...
by design | Aug 18, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
My Golf Game Is Unbelievable (Part Two) By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Anyone who has ever played golf at Holston Hills Country Club will be amazed, or at least get a kick out of this: I once hit a 16 on the eighth hole – the shortest, easiest hole on the...
by design | Aug 18, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Consequential By Dr. Jim Ferguson I was 12 years old when I first visited Washington, D.C. I was a sixth grader then and part of my elementary school’s safety patrol trip. I remember little of that experience except climbing the 897 steps of the Washington Monument....
