by design | Dec 18, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Fascinating Interviews By Tom Mattingly Who might be among the most fascinating people you have interviewed or written about during your professional writing career? That question has been raised more than once in a number of forums. Col. Tom Elam, the self-described...
by design | Dec 17, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Woke College Presidents Are Hypocrites Anyone who saw the performances of the three college presidents before the congressional committee attempting to address the shocking and still rising antisemitism on their respective...
by design | Dec 17, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Tribune’s Sentinel: Charles Wayland Brooks By Ray Hill From 1940 until 1949, Charles Wayland Brooks served in the United States Senate. A successful attorney who had fought in the First World War, Brooks was known to his friends as “Curly” because of his hair;...
by design | Dec 11, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Balance the Budget? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com In Washington, balancing the budget is a game with the Republicans pretending that they want to cut spending while the Democrats act as if any cut will be devastating. The farce is...
by design | Dec 11, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
$77 Million To Not Coach Is Crazy By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few months ago I wrote that I thought paying the Tennessee football coach $9,000,000 a year (over $24,400 a day) was ridiculous, and even in a way sinful. I wrote that Coach Heupel seems...
by design | Dec 11, 2023 | Columnist, McKeehan
It is a Crime to Possess Brass Knuckles By Jedidiah McKeehan We have all seen the movie where the good guy is about to enter into an epic fist fight with the bad guy. As the two of them stare each other down, we watch the bad guy put on a set of brass knuckles so he...
