by design | Oct 18, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Editor’s note: This week’s Publisher’s Position is reprinted from the October 5 edition of The Knoxville Focus. Early voting is ongoing through October 29, with the general election on November 3. For more information on where to vote, please visit knoxvotes.org. By...
by design | Oct 18, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Edna Flannery Kelly spent 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she represented Brooklyn. Mrs. Kelly was the first woman to be elected to Congress from New York City and made her presence felt in the House. Things might have been very...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Words are our tools of communication. JVF I don’t know how I became interested in words. My teachers would certainly attest to the fact that my efforts in English education were at best perfunctory (an action carried out with minimum effort). I...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jed McKeehan Let’s say you are having a phone call with a contractor about work that went badly, or perhaps you are meeting with your child’s other parent and you are worried that the conversation will later be described very differently. Can you pull out your...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi It is the Third Saturday in October, and you know what that means! Alabama Hate Week. One of southern football’s greatest rivalries will be renewed on Saturday afternoon at Neyland Stadium as Tennessee hosts Alabama. And in a neat nod to history,...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams A friend of mine, Tom Heck, gave me the following story to tell on “Bama Week” and “the Third Saturday in October”. It’s about his Uncle Len Coffman, who played for the Tennessee Volunteers in the late 1930s. Had it not been for the University of...
