by design | Sep 7, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley More Woke Waste After increasing property taxes by 40% – – – and seeking to increase the sales tax this November – – – the City of Knoxville is offering folks up to $5,000 of hard-earned tax...
by design | Sep 7, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Iowa’s Cantankerous Congressman Harold Royce “H. R.” Gross By Ray Hill It is fair to say there was not a speck of get-along-go-along in the character of Harold Royce Gross, a former newscaster who spent 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Watch out, Gramps! ICE is out to get you! By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The left’s strategy on immigration is focused on turning illegals into victims. Every illegal arrested by ICE is an innocent. Every illegal is now a...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraine By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The Democrats are so partisan now and so eager to criticize President Trump on anything he does that they are even attacking him for entering into peace...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Obsession To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine By Dr. Jim Ferguson Where do they find these corporate “marketeers?” I’m not talking about the old Disney Mouseketeers, who knew their...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Golf is not for prideful persons By Joe Rector In my 40s, I began playing golf. Prior to that time, I visited courses about three times. Those times were miserable for me. I could barely hit the ball and whiffed on more occasions than I care to admit. As I’ve admitted...
