by Ralphine Major | Jan 25, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is the comment I hear most often from Focus readers: I look for the Bible verse in your column. When I first started writing for The Focus, I would sometimes include a favorite Bible passage in my true, human interest column. When COVID-19...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Jan 25, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan When someone asks me if they can dismiss a domestic assault charge, this question can come from either the defendant or the victim. Let’s define the parties first. The defendant is the individual arrested and charged with committing the crime of...
by Tom Mattingly | Jan 25, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That’s what teachers have told us over the years. In Moore County, if you did or said something Elizabeth Majors might not have liked, you were going to hear about it. That was just a fact of...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 25, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi I’m speechless. Actually, no I’m not speechless. I’m just perplexed. How does Tennessee’s football program continue to screw things up, time after time? Last week, the University of Tennessee fired Jeremy Pruitt “for cause.” That means they expect that...
by Harold Black | Jan 25, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com Happy New Year. Time Magazine proclaimed 2020 as being the “worse year ever.” Such a headline is a sad commentary on our tastes in that Time is still published and Mad Magazine is not. I doubt if 2020 will rank among the...
by John Duncan | Jan 25, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. As a young girl in Iowa, my mother played the cello. In later years, her main enjoyment, after her grandchildren, was playing a very nice, small organ my father had bought her. I may have gotten my love for music from her, but for most of my...
