by design | Jul 28, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘A Life-Changing Experience’ By Tom Mattingly Cooper Manning’s son, Arch, had his coming-out party as starting quarterback at Texas at SEC Media Days in mid-July. That elicited significant memories of an association with the Manning family, particularly...
by design | Jul 27, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley The Greatest Scandal? If people were asked what is the greatest scandal to ever overtake a presidential administration, my guess is most would say “Watergate” under President Richard Nixon. The ongoing developments being released...
by design | Jul 27, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Senator From Wisconsin F Ryan Duffy Wisconsin was considered to be a solidly Republican state by the time F. Ryan Duffy waged a campaign to be elected to the United States Senate in 1932. Yet there were two strong elements of the Republican Party inside the...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Barney Fife Day (And My Birthday) By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The date this column is published (July 21), I will have my 78th birthday. I call it Barney Fife Day because several years ago, I got a big kick out of it when I found this was also Don...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Black, Columnist
The monthly jobs report or how to lie with statistics By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com There are few things in life as certain as death, taxes and an inflated jobs report. The report for June says that 147,000 jobs were added to the...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
The Pack Mule By Dr. Jim Ferguson Every week, I wait for my weekly essay to find me, and it always seems to do so. And sometimes a picture is better than prose to introduce a message. This is why memes are so effective. My West Coast daughter and family were with us...
