by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
On Almost Everything, Follow The Money By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Almost everything the federal government does can be traced back to a very old saying: “Follow the money.” According to Wikipedia, the saying was popularized almost 50 years ago...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Rent controls: A solution to housing affordability? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Knoxville’s mayor is said to favor rent controls as a “solution” to housing affordability. She, like most progressives, ignores Santayana’s “Those who...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Persecution One is only poor, only if they choose to be. Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m sure you have felt it by now. It’s cooler and less humid; fall is in the air. We are blessed to live in the best part of the country with four distinct...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Major
Nature’s Majestic Trees By Ralphine Major “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” The first line of Joyce Kilmer’s poem entitled “Trees” always comes to mind when I see the towering oak trees, leafy maple trees, huge beech trees, and many more....
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Amy and I made our way to Isle of Palms for an annual vacation. We’ve been coming here for years and believe that it’s the best place to spend a week. Over that time, we’ve left early on more than one occasion for a variety of reasons. We are lucky not...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Keeping fans breathless until the game ended By Tom Mattingly There were 53 tie games across the history of the Tennessee football program. The tie game went out of fashion after the 1995 football season. In 1955, Bowden Wyatt’s first season, Tennessee and Georgia...
