by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray HIll Key, Jr., famed political scientist and author, gave an excellent description of the grand divisions of Tennessee and its politics in 1949: “Tennessee is a narrow ribbon of real estate stretching from North Carolina to the Mississippi. Tennessee’s far...
by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
America is a land of systemic reform, not systemic racism. Dr. Carol M. Swain By Dr. Jim Ferguson This week it’s hard to know where to begin. There is so much to consider. Admittedly, my essays often present a variety of seemingly unrelated topics. Yet a theme is...
by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Happy Valentine’s Day. In the January 17, 2022, Knoxville Focus I wondered if there were really any moderate democrats. Of course, moderate is a relative term. Although several democratic senators...
by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I find it almost impossible to understand polls I have seen that say a significant percentage of young people today believe in socialism. The only way that could be is that they have been brainwashed by left-wing college...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly The 1968-69 University of Tennessee basketball season finished 21-7 overall and 13-5 (SEC), with an appearance in the NIT. It featured yeoman-like work from Bill Justus, Billy Hann, Bobby Croft, Jimmy England, and Don Johnson. A game at Vanderbilt...
by design | Jan 17, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Here’s a situation I personally encountered a number of years ago. I received a phone call from a neighbor to a piece of property I owned informing me that a tree from my property had fallen on to his house, causing damage. I did not really...
