A miracle two decades in the making By Ken Leinart Miracle Ridge. To really understand the importance of the “Hallelujah” moment that created Miracle Ridge, you have to go back some 22 years. Hand Up For Women started in 2002 with a simple goal and has kept true to...
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Claudine Gay Resigns... Good Riddance Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, has offered up her resignation after her abysmal performance at a now notorious congressional hearing. Gay might have survived that episode had it not...
Lady Falcon trio leads comeback win at WB By Steve Williams William Blount junior Savannah Darnell was putting on a “one-girl show” against Fulton on her home court last Wednesday night. When the Lady Falcons came into their locker room trailing by 17 points at...
Re-electing the Senator: The Final Campaign of William B. Bate By Ray Hill By 1903, only two men had ever been elected to a fourth term in the United States Senate from the State of Tennessee: Isham G. Harris and William B. Bate. The two men had several things in...
Fulton quickly gets back on right track By Steve Williams Everyone seemed to be in agreement that Fulton’s first loss of the season was a good loss. The defending Class 3A state champions were riding a 32-game win streak when Murfreesboro Central Magnet stopped Fulton...
Bishop hopes to be ready to play by March By Steve Williams Tennessee freshman running back De’Sean Bishop is on the road to recovery and hopes to be 100 percent for spring practice in March, he told The Focus last Thursday. The Karns High School product and one of...
Fountain City Auction to host 19th Annual Advertisement Sale By Ken Lay It’s a new year and Fountain City Auction will kick off 2024 with its 19th annual Advertisement Sale and Country Store Auction on Saturday, January 6, at 2 p.m. The event is online only and the...
America’s new fascists, the radical Left By Steve Hunley The divide in the Democratic Party over support for Israel versus the antisemitism of the progressive wing of the party has caused some heads to blow off, but it has also revealed some telling points. Many...
A book with a backstory A Day Away By Mike Steely Sometimes a find in a used book bin can lead to an interesting story about the book and the author. The battered book I recently found in a discard pile, “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” was written by Frances Hodgson...
Behind the Curtain: Women Come Into Their Own By Ray Hill With women occupying a majority of the seats on the Knox County Commission and the recent centennial of Tennessee being the state to give women the right to vote, it occurred to me to write a column about some...
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