by design | Feb 6, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
The decade of the 1950s was an exciting one for Tennessee fans By Tom Mattingly In 2007, Sports Illustrated named Tennessee the “Team of the Decade” for the 1950s as the Vols compiled a 72-31-4 record overall, 38-20-4 in the SEC, and earned a consensus national title...
by design | Feb 5, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley They Should Pay For It The City of Knoxville has paid $150,000 to hire someone to write a grant to build a “pedestrian” bridge across the Tennessee River. The proposed bridge would span the South Knoxville waterfront to the...
by design | Feb 5, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Named for the four-time presidential candidate and Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, H. Clay Evans was a highly important figure in Tennessee’s Republican Party. Evans had a storied and diverse career, a successful businessman who manufactured freight cars...
by design | Jan 30, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Speaker McCarthy By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Rather than saying take this job and shove it, after 15 ballots Kevin McCarthy finally became Speaker of the House of Representatives. There was much gnashing of teeth from conservative...
by design | Jan 30, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
Antifa Demonstrators Are Spoiled Rich Kids By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The recent arrests of far-left demonstrators in Atlanta and Boston have shown that most of these Antifa protestors are mostly a bunch of spoiled rich kids. Antifa is supposed to be...
by design | Jan 30, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Consensus is the absence of leadership. Margaret Thatcher By Dr. Jim Ferguson A friend observed how gloomy the weather has been lately with overcast skies and “southern cold.” I know what she means. I no longer ski, but I remember riding lifts to 12,000 feet in the...
