by design | Feb 9, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fall of Congressman John Jennings, I For the decade from 1940-1951, the congressman from Tennessee’s reliably Republican Second Congressional District was John Jennings. Bald on top, bespectacled, a very good speaker and an equally good lawyer who had once served...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Will Trump observe Black History Month? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com When I was young we observed Black History Week. In 1926 the eminent historian Carter Woodson proclaimed the second week in February “Black History Week.” This was...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Los Angeles Fires Made Worse By Environmental Extremists By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few days before the horrendous fires started in Los Angeles, the New York Times carried an article about the huge 1970s controversy over the snail darter that...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Whirlwind Trump has won and we have lost. Panel discussion at World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos, Switzerland By Dr. Jim Ferguson It has been breathtaking to watch President Trump since January 20, 2025, which some are calling “liberation day.” His energy seems...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Water By Joe Rector This past Sunday, our minister gave the second in a series on the book of John. She discussed the significance of water for Christians and the many things for which it is a symbol. Of course, baptism is the most obvious one. After church, I began...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Lost weekends’ By Tom Mattingly Over the years, there have been several “lost weekends” over the course of Tennessee athletics, a time when everything that could go wrong did. The recent Vanderbilt hoops weekend was one of them, two one-point losses at...
