by design | Nov 27, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Kevin McCarthy Elected New House Speaker House Republicans have officially nominated Kevin McCarthy to become Speaker of the House. McCarthy was recently asked if he would keep his promise to remove Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the...
by design | Nov 27, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Senator McKellar vs the CIO-PAC By Ray Hill Tennessee’s senior member of its congressional delegation was Kenneth D. McKellar, who had been in Congress for a total of thirty-six years; thirty of those years in the Senate. McKellar had just been handily reelected to...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
I Hope Everyone Has A Happy Thanksgiving By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City from 1932 to 1984. He died on Christmas Eve in 1993 at the age of 95. He wrote The Power of...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
Visiting Hot Springs, North Carolina A Day Away by Mike Steely I’ll bet you didn’t know that the French Broad River, which joins the Holston River in Knoxville to become the Tennessee River, gets some of its water from a very strange source. In the mountains of North...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
Do You Want to Be a County Historian? By Jedidiah McKeehan How would you like to be the resident historian for your county? There might be an opening! Tennessee Code Annotated section 5-18-101 states, “The legislative body of each county shall appoint some person of...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Politics is downstream from culture. Andrew Breitbart By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve never been a fan of comics. Perhaps the only exception is the single-cell comics of Gary Larson. I loved Larson’s caricatures and creatures, and his witty and pithy observations. And I...
