by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Few politicians of the time were as cognizant and protective of their public images as was Cordell Hull of Tennessee. One of the most closely guarded secrets in Washington, D. C. was the fact Cordell Hull suffered from tuberculosis. Hull was...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com One of my closest friends was bemoaning the fact that the republican leadership has trouble keeping their caucus together. On the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, 19 republican senators voted for the...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything. G K Chesterton By Dr. Jim Ferguson The one indisputable truth of the pandemic is there’s a new kid on the block. Human coronavirus infections have been known since the 1960s....
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A recent Drudge Report had an article from a San Francisco publication which said 25 major corporations had moved their headquarters from California to Tennessee since June of 2018. The report said 150,000 more people had...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mark Nagi There are so many great people that work in high school athletics in East Tennessee. They spend their time and talents towards making the lives of our kids better and more productive. The lessons they teach go well beyond the playing fields,...
by design | Jan 10, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi What were you doing 23 years ago? I know what I was doing. I was in Tempe, watching Tennessee win its first consensus national championship in 47 years. Their 23-16 victory over Florida State capped off a 13-0 season, putting Tennessee at the top of the...
