by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Lady Hornets are state bound! After capturing their first-ever region crown, the Carter girls’ bowling team made more history Saturday by earning a berth in this week’s TSSAA state tournament at Smyrna. The Lady Hornets rallied to defeat Kingsport...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com One of my closest friends was bemoaning the fact that the republican leadership has trouble keeping their caucus together. On the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, 19 republican senators voted for the...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything. G K Chesterton By Dr. Jim Ferguson The one indisputable truth of the pandemic is there’s a new kid on the block. Human coronavirus infections have been known since the 1960s....
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A recent Drudge Report had an article from a San Francisco publication which said 25 major corporations had moved their headquarters from California to Tennessee since June of 2018. The report said 150,000 more people had...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Fulton cooled off one of the hottest basketball teams in the state last week. Clinton rolled into Jody Wright Arena on a 16-game win streak Wednesday night and had not lost a game since its Hall of Fame season opener at McMinn County on Nov. 16. The...
by design | Jan 16, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mark Nagi There are so many great people that work in high school athletics in East Tennessee. They spend their time and talents towards making the lives of our kids better and more productive. The lessons they teach go well beyond the playing fields,...