by design | May 4, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley No One Should Be Above The Law, Including Liberal Judges For the entirety of his four years, Joe Biden insisted there was nothing he could do without Congress to fix the problem at our southern border. Donald Trump’s first 100...
by design | May 4, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Rise & Fall of a Congressman John M. Coffee of Washington State By Ray Hill For a decade, John Main Coffee served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reporter Jack Pyle of the Tacoma News Tribune summed up Coffee’s career after a failed comeback attempt in...
by design | May 4, 2025 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
A day trip to Rogersville and back A Day Away By Mike Steely “I always read your interesting stories about your visits to these towns but unfortunately, have not saved them. Now, before it is too late, my wife and I want to visit these towns while we still can!” Those...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘The most difficult decision I’ve had to make in my life’ By Tom Mattingly Sometimes, the best coaching search is no search at all. Consider Dec. 4, 1976, a day all of Big Orange Country had breathlessly awaited. A Tennessee legend was coming home, nearly...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Fire Jay Powell? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com President Trump has been itching to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome (Jay) Powell. Although he appointed Powell to the post in 2018, Trump has found that he cannot publicly shame Powell...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Trade War – You Can Root For Trump Or For China By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com When I was a batboy for the Knoxville Smokies in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I did it for free the first and second seasons and then for $1.50 a game after that. In...
