by design | Sep 19, 2022 | Columnist, Major
School Portraits By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com They are often found in wallets and scrapbooks and serve as reminders of our school days. There was a time when cameras were rare and formal photos were seldom made, so school portraits taken at school were a big...
by design | Sep 19, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
Music is good for the soul By Joe Rector Amy and I returned from Hendersonville last weekend. We’re tired of the raceway better known as I-40, so we’ve begun taking the scenic route. Through Oak Ridge and Oliver Springs takes us to Highway 27, where we cruise on down...
by design | Sep 19, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
An important question By Tom Mattingly My wife and I celebrated a significant milestone in the 2022 season-opening game against Ball State. Each of us celebrated our 50th anniversary as season ticket holders, dating from the first game of the 1972 season, the 28-21...
by design | Sep 18, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Back to the Basics Needed at Knox County Schools Nobody can be happy with the State of Tennessee’s assessment our school system was in the bottom 5% of all state school districts last year. That ranking is based on things like...
by design | Sep 18, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Burning Down Washington, D.C. By Ray Hill Those cities which are also capitols for their respective countries are always highly cognizant of several things, not the least of which are social status and one’s address. In 1922, one of the more elegant and desirable...
by design | Sep 12, 2022 | Black, Columnist
Poor Janet Yellen By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Janet Yellen is one of the few in Biden’s cabinet that is actually qualified for her job as Treasury Secretary. She has been president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and...
