by design | Jun 25, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Mental Health Court Needed Knox County is set to establish a Mental Health Court, which will hear the cases of those with mental health issues, obviously. Not only is this a very good idea, but it is increasingly needed. Judge Chuck Cerny of...
by design | Jun 25, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The best-selling author Pearl Buck once wrote, “If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday.” History is comprised of the high and the low and everything in between. The “great” historical figures every child (at least in my day) grew up...
by design | Jun 25, 2023 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
A Day Away By Mike Steely The little town of Tazewell is one of my favorite places and if you only drive along Highway 25E through Claiborne County, you’ll miss the historic town center. Tazewell is just south of Cumberland Gap and has existed since 1804. Tazewell,...
by design | Jun 20, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Most Universities Are Now Leftist Brainwashing Factories By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I and many others have said it is unfortunate, but most of our major universities have become little more than leftist brainwashing factories. As the old saying goes,...
by design | Jun 20, 2023 | Black, Columnist
The Left’s Effort to Resegregate America By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I do not understand the continuing effort of the “progressive” left to pit blacks against whites. California’s committee on reparations has recommended paying the...
by design | Jun 20, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Movies filmed at the Biltmore Mansion A Day Away by Mike Steely Who among us doesn’t know about the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina? I mean we’ve either been there, wanted to go there, or know someone who has. It’s sort of like Dollywood as far as being...