by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
It’s Resolution Time By Joe Rector Thousands of folks, perhaps even millions of them, will begin the year 2025 with pledges to change things in their lives. We have a way of trying to start each year with resolutions to better ourselves. Some people feel the stress of...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
The sky isn’t falling for the Vols By Mark Nagi This season Tennessee’s football team won 10 games. They beat rivals Florida and Alabama, each of them for the second time in three years. They finished the regular season tied for second place in the Southeastern...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
December Saturdays to Remember By Tom Mattingly Rarely have three consecutive December Saturdays been as significant as Dec. 4, Dec. 11, and Dec. 18 were in 1965, following a successful Tennessee football season. These were December Saturdays that forever changed the...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
The New Order The news media did not lose its credibility. It threw it away. Don Surber By Dr. Jim Ferguson I begin this last column of the year on a high note of optimism. The year 2024 was the proverbial Alexander’s “Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad [year].”...
by design | Dec 30, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Still Living In Andy Of Mayberry Days By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com My late wife, Lynn, sometimes told people that I didn’t like change and that I still lived in Andy Griffith of Mayberry days. Then, one day about 15 or 20 years ago, I read in the...
