by design | May 8, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Excellence in higher education is hard to define. How can you tell if a professor is doing a good job? I’ve always said that so long as my students didn’t run from the room with their hands over their...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Regular readers of my column know that my wife, Vickie, and I got married last May 20th after we both had lost our previous spouses to very serious illnesses – her husband to Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and my wife to strokes and...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Going Aboard the Titanic A Day Way by By Mike Steely Promoted as the safest ship ever built, the Titanic sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg on its way from England to America. It’s been featured in various movies, television specials, books and family...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Columnist, McKeehan
Raise Your Right Hand, and then Put it Down By Jedidiah McKeehan I am sure we have all seen a movie where someone is sworn in to testify. A bailiff or judge looks at the witness and says, “Raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
The news of my death has been grossly exaggerated. Mark Twain By Dr. Jim Ferguson These are troubled times, but apparently not bad enough to stop some people from supporting Biden and the Democrats. It is breathtaking to see how much damage “Joey Demento” and his...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The picture looks like a duplicate of the one used earlier. But this photo is more special. Besides my brother and me, it includes our mother standing between us; and in this picture, King—my brother’s German Shepherd—is distracted by...
