by design | Aug 27, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Man in the White Hat: Indiana’s Henry F. Schricker By Ray Hill For many years the governors of Indiana were confined to serving one four-year term and sitting it out for another four years before they could run again. Several tried, but the only man to have...
by design | Aug 27, 2023 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
Black’s parents signed him up to play at C-N By Steve Williams On Carson-Newman’s 1963 football roster, Bobby Black, senior co-captain, was listed as a 6-3, 200-pound center. Back then, 60 years ago, that was considered pretty good size for a college lineman. Over the...
by design | Aug 21, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Trump Cases Are Fueled By Partisan Political Hatred By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com There is a very old saying that a zealous prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he wanted to. If we really believed in the presumption of innocence – that a person is...
by design | Aug 21, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Hollywood’s Strike By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com When I wrote this piece, Hollywood actors and writers are on strike. The question is “Will anyone notice?” I certainly won’t since I don’t go to movies. The last movie I sat through in a...
by design | Aug 21, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
American Kudzu The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus By Dr. Jim Ferguson Anyone who has lived in the South knows about kudzu, although the invasive vine is now found in 32 states and Canada. Government geniuses in the 1930s encouraged...
by design | Aug 21, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
They’re at it again By Joe Rector A drive up most side roads here in Ball Camp and most other neighborhoods in Knoxville will find the topsoil scraped away and heavy machinery cutting roads and drains and sewer lines to squeeze too many houses onto too little land....
