by design | Feb 20, 2023 | Columnist, Nagi
Saying goodbye to a Tennessee legend By Mark Nagi Last week, the University of Tennessee lost the last remaining administrative connection to General Robert Neyland, when Gus Manning passed away at the age of 99. Manning, who worked in the Tennessee athletics...
by design | Feb 19, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Better Screeners Needed As Republicans in Knox County prepared to go into convention last week, Credentials Committee member Kevin Hill was busy trying to disqualify legitimate GOP voters. Among those Hill tried to claim weren’t Republican voters was...
by design | Feb 19, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Henry Clay Evans had been elected to Congress from Tennessee’s Third Congressional District in 1888 as a Republican. His victory had been a profound shock to local Democrats who promptly gerrymandered his district and castigated the congressman for his...
by design | Feb 19, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
A for-sure ‘Vol for Life’ By Tom Mattingly Gus Manning, a respected and legendary figure in the University of Tennessee Athletic Department and across the expanse of the campus and state, and wherever Vol fans gather, died Feb. 12 in Knoxville. Across Vol Nation, soft...
by design | Feb 13, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The Oracle Who Names is at it again proclaiming that henceforth illegal aliens be referred to as “migrants.” Interestingly all media have bent on one knee to comply including the “conservative” press. It...
by design | Feb 13, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com We are lucky to have a good local radio station like 98.7 WOKI with its all-star roster of outstanding hosts. Its host and co-hosts seem to care about East Tennessee and its people, and they help keep us informed and...
