by design | May 19, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Old People Advice for Graduates By Joe Rector It’s that time of year again: graduation. Knoxville businesses look forward to this event each year because grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts, and close friends invade the area to watch special young people walk across...
by design | May 19, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
Relationships: An Untapped Remedy for Exhaustion By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor It was a busy Wednesday afternoon when Eli, a young professional, sat at his desk, feeling exhausted from a never-ending cycle of meetings, emails and...
by design | May 19, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Dominant recollections from across the years’ By Tom Mattingly Here follows a perspective of a lifetime of watching and commenting about sports and assessing its impact on otherwise sane and sensible people. Now is the time to assess what it all means. A...
by design | May 18, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley According To Sentinel, The City Can Do No Wrong The Knoxville News Sentinel is now whining about the $60 million “pedestrian” bridge along South Knoxville’s waterfront as it tries to wail about waste and overspending in...
by design | May 18, 2025 | Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
From Big Band Leader to Politician Victor A. Meyers Victor Aloysius Meyers lived to be 93 years old, a fact which astonished some of those who knew him. Tacoma, Washington, attorney John J. O’Connell said, “You’d think a man who had that much fun tasting the good...
by design | May 12, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Trump saves the Canadian Liberals while throwing stones By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Canada just asserted its sovereignty. Before Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian Liberals were on the run. A sluggish economy and the boorish tactics of...
