Nature’s Picture Frame

By Ralphine Major The sights are not always picture-perfect.  Our region has been hit hard recently with high temperatures and powerful storms.  Thunder and lightning.  Power outages.  Flooding.  Downed trees.  Debris everywhere!  The storms have almost become a daily...

Rule of the minority?

  By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The left has always loved the judiciary making policy that fail to make it through the legislature. However, when the Supreme Court stopped making policy and started enforcing the law, the left...

Remembering local restaurants

By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I miss Wright’s Cafeteria. Everything I ever had there was good, and I always saw a lot of friendly people there. One of the most pleasant was the owner, my friend David Wright. The cafeteria was filled with pictures of...

Overcoming early season adversity

By Tom Mattingly It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish. That was a capsule summary of the 1981 Tennessee football season, marked by a rocky start on Rocky Top. After losses at Georgia (44-0) and at Southern Cal (43-7), no one in Big Orange Country would have...