by Ray Hill | Jan 10, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The fascination with royal families is hardly new. I well remember just how many people were caught up in the wedding of Prince Charles to Diana Spencer. Like every capital of a civilized country, Washington, D.C. has a vibrant social life and the visit...
by Mike Steely | Jan 5, 2021 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely In a recent story in The Focus I mentioned that my wife and I collect political and promotional buttons and cups from places we’ve visited, and other things like postcards and business cards. The article drew some response when it appeared. Kathy Turpin...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Many called it God’s gift during COVID-19. White Christmases are rare in East Tennessee. I can only recall two or three of them. On Christmas Eve, as predicted, the rain turned to snowflakes. Quickly, huge snowflakes came pouring down! ...
by Jim Ferguson | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” Thomas Paine By Dr. Jim Ferguson A...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi It finally happened. After 25 years of playing fantasy football, many of those years playing in more than one league, I can finally put a fantasy football championship on my resume. My team, “Schiano Sunday,” beat Russell Smith’s “Freshwater Sarks” 115-75...
by design | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. James V. DeLong was magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School and, while now retired, had a very distinguished legal career in Washington. He wrote a recent article for the American Thinker called “The Honor of the Legal Profession.” I...
