by design | Nov 28, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
A Trip to Appalachian State… Ruined! By Mark Nagi Regular readers of my articles know that I’d rather be at a ballgame than watch them on TV. There’s something about the buzz of the crowd, the sound of the sport and the smell of the concessions that make the...
by design | Nov 28, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
The sideline of choice By Tom Mattingly Does it matter which side of the football field your favorite team stands on? It’s a tough question. The argument goes like this. If your bench is on the east side (opposite the press box), your team is in the sun, regardless of...
by design | Nov 27, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Kevin McCarthy Elected New House Speaker House Republicans have officially nominated Kevin McCarthy to become Speaker of the House. McCarthy was recently asked if he would keep his promise to remove Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the...
by design | Nov 27, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Senator McKellar vs the CIO-PAC By Ray Hill Tennessee’s senior member of its congressional delegation was Kenneth D. McKellar, who had been in Congress for a total of thirty-six years; thirty of those years in the Senate. McKellar had just been handily reelected to...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
I Hope Everyone Has A Happy Thanksgiving By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City from 1932 to 1984. He died on Christmas Eve in 1993 at the age of 95. He wrote The Power of...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
Visiting Hot Springs, North Carolina A Day Away by Mike Steely I’ll bet you didn’t know that the French Broad River, which joins the Holston River in Knoxville to become the Tennessee River, gets some of its water from a very strange source. In the mountains of North...
