by design | Apr 25, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few Sundays ago, I was invited to eat lunch after church at the home of Bob and Gail Winter in East Knox County. We had a wonderful lunch of pot roast, potatoes, carrots, onions, coleslaw, rolls and brownies with hot fudge...
by design | Apr 18, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In my focus column last week, I mentioned the last national news article written about my career in Congress. Published in December of 2018 in news magazine The Week, it said: “He looked out for the interests of Main Street...
by design | Apr 11, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The last article published about my 30 years in Congress was written by a man I never met and who never interviewed me. Yet it summed up my career and the things I stood for better than anything I could have written myself....
by design | Apr 4, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The most recent NBC poll has very bad news for Joe Biden. And, as the parent of leftwing MSNBC, NBC’s polls are usually more favorable to the Democrats than most other polls. The NBC News report was headlined “Biden’s job...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I have great respect for my fellow Focus columnist, Dr. Harold Black, and admire him for many reasons. First and foremost, I admire the courage he had to be one of the first African-Americans to attend the University...
by design | Mar 21, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com My late wife, Lynn, used to tell me and occasionally would tell others that I still live in Andy of Mayberry days because I didn’t change. Although once she did say that it was probably good for our marriage that I usually...
