by design | Aug 8, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Consider the impact of Sunday evening, Jan. 9, 1994, on Tennessee football history, as Vol quarterback Heath Shuler held a media conference that filled Vol fans with dread and all those other adjectives associated with bad things happening. Fans were...
by design | Aug 7, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley City mayor raises taxes, cuts services After having given police officers a well-deserved raise and asking the city council to inflict the largest property tax increase in Knoxville’s history, the first thing Mayor Indya Kincannon has done is...
by design | Aug 7, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Congressman Clifford Davis was the last vestige of the old Crump machine still holding federal office in 1963. Davis had been in Congress since 1940 when he had won a special election to succeed Walter Chandler who had become mayor of Memphis. Davis was...
by design | Aug 1, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan When parents have children together and they are not married to each other, who controls where the children should be? As part of a custody or divorce case, the courts will enter a Parenting Plan that lays out when the children will spend time...
by design | Aug 1, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com You would have to be a senior citizen like me to remember Art Linkletter, but he had a show which ran for 25 years on CBS radio and television, and another that ran for 19 years on NBC radio and television. On one of his...
by design | Aug 1, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Apparently, the federal czars fitfully trying to manage the economy have forgotten that economics tells us that prices are determined by changes in both supply and demand. Only the Federal Reserve appears...
