By John J. Duncan Jr. My sweet, beautiful wife, Lynn, passed away on Sunday, August 1, and there are no words strong enough to express how much I am going to miss her. I told her near the end that she had been my earthly angel and now she would be my heavenly angel....
By Dr. Harold A. Black There may be a force that could lead to a breaking up of the United States that is not due to a constitutional crisis provoked by the Federal government (see my article on HR 1). That would be the mandating of renewables to power electric...
An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. --Sun Tzu (from The Art of War) By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is the expression of reading or hearing something for the first time, despite having read or heard it before. You might say the...
By Tom Mattingly Sometimes sportswriters come up with an idea that makes sense years later. The year was 1926. It was a Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 6. The baseball pennant races were in full swing. The football season was set to begin on Sept. 25. A new coach was ready...
By Steve Williams The 7 on 7 tournaments ended and the mandatory acclimatization days of helmets and shoulder pads only were completed. Local high school football teams were ready to don full pads and start hitting on July 26 and most had their first preseason...
By Ken Lay Knox County’s public school students will return to school today after summer vacation. But some other students in Knoxville are already back in the classroom for the 2021-22 academic year. Emerald Academy, a charter school in Knoxville, welcomed its...
COVID Crisis, Not A Border Crisis By Steve Hunley, Publisher publisher@knoxfocus.com It is becoming increasingly apparent the leftists are trying to prepare everyone for more mandates and edicts about the spread of COVID. Yet it’s time to address the pack of...
Politics and cronyism will continue on unelected board By Steve Hunley The race for Knox County Sheriff is at the heart of the morass that has become the Sheriff Office’s Merit System Council. Incumbent Tom Spangler is facing his predecessor, Jimmy “J.J.” Jones,...
50-year starter is still an active Hall of Famer By Steve Williams “All I ever wanted to be was a teacher and a coach,” said Donnie Graham recently. He clearly met those career aspirations in his 35-plus years in the Knox County School system and added to it by being...
By Ray Hill Carroll Reece had served in Congress for a decade before unexpectedly losing reelection in the 1930 general election. Reece had been upset by Oscar B. Lovette, who had held several local offices as a Republican, but who ran in 1930 as an Independent....
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