by design | Aug 25, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Kamala The Chameleon You read it here first, but it has spread throughout the country following my editorial about “reimagining” Kamala. Evidently, Kamala is the perfect political chameleon. She has demonstrated she can change...
by design | Aug 25, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Alabama: George Huddleston By Ray Hill Courtly, nicely dressed and usually wearing a black bowtie, George Huddleston, to all outward appearances, seemed to be a typical Southern congressman. A fiery speaker, Huddleston had been a successful...
by design | Aug 19, 2024 | Columnist, McKeehan
What does it mean to ‘Hang Your Own Shingle’? By Jed McKeehan If you ever speak with an attorney who owns their own law firm, and they talk about how they started their own business, you may hear them say something like this, “After ten years at the big corporate firm...
by design | Aug 19, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Drain The Swamp? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Trump wants to “drain the swamp” which means he wants to dismantle the administrative state. He proposes to do this because the vast majority of federal workers are Democrats which he...
by design | Aug 19, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
U.S. Calls For Ceasefire But Keeps Supporting War By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On August 12, the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, issued a press statement commemorating the anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions. He said: “The...
by design | Aug 19, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
Look Carefully at the Field By Tom Mattingly There are all kinds of storylines within the expanse of the Neyland Stadium, far beyond wins, losses, and ties, summonsed as if by magic in the mind’s eye. It’s definitely an orange-tinted world. More than 70 years ago, the...