by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Daniel Herrera and his merry band of political allies are planning and plotting. Not well, mind you, but nonetheless, they are planning and plotting. Herrera’s latest escapade is trying to create a job for his compadre Erik Wiatr. The local...
by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Clifford Davis had represented Shelby County in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-four years when he announced he was running for his fourteenth term in 1964. Davis had been the Democratic nominee in a 1940 special election and had won again in...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I was puzzled at first as to why the left started referring to women as “birthing persons.” Turns out it was part of the gender identity movement that the left is foisting on the rest of us....
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com CORRECTION: The article from which I wrote part of my original August 22 column had wrongly attributed a quote criticizing the Trump raid to Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers. That quote was actually from...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I remember reading an article a number of years ago regarding the divorce between the couple that owned the Los Angeles Dodgers and how messy the divorce was. The article referenced that an expert had been hired to determine whether the stapling...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely The very first story of mine I saw in print outside of my duties as a Coast Guard journalist was printed in an Alexandria, Va., newspaper. I remember visiting the paper back then and seeing the first letterpress printing I ever saw. I prize the line of...