by design | Aug 29, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
Better then or now? By Joe Rector I’m sitting on the front porch and waiting for the storm to roll in. No guarantees are given, but the air has cooled, the skies are filling with a thick blanket of dark clouds, and the thunder is rumbling in the distance. I suppose...
by design | Aug 29, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘It was all football, just rock ‘em, sock ‘em’ By Tom Mattingly If you were to go to war on the gridiron, you’d want to have former Vol Steve DeLong on your side. Steve DeLong could play the game… and play it at a high level. Steve died Aug. 18, 2010, at age 67, but...
by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Daniel Herrera and his merry band of political allies are planning and plotting. Not well, mind you, but nonetheless, they are planning and plotting. Herrera’s latest escapade is trying to create a job for his compadre Erik Wiatr. The local...
by design | Aug 28, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Clifford Davis had represented Shelby County in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-four years when he announced he was running for his fourteenth term in 1964. Davis had been the Democratic nominee in a 1940 special election and had won again in...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I was puzzled at first as to why the left started referring to women as “birthing persons.” Turns out it was part of the gender identity movement that the left is foisting on the rest of us....
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com CORRECTION: The article from which I wrote part of my original August 22 column had wrongly attributed a quote criticizing the Trump raid to Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers. That quote was actually from...
