by design | Sep 6, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
A number of significant, exciting, and occasionally disappointing moments By Tom Mattingly The 1972 football season had a number of significant, exciting, and occasionally disappointing moments nearly every week. The final record was 10-2, with a No. 8 national...
by design | Sep 6, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
Tennessee Starts Strong, Looks to Pittsburgh By Mark Nagi For the second straight season, the Tennessee Volunteers got an early start with a weeknight matchup against a MAC team. For the second straight season, a blowout victory was in the cards. 92,236 fans packed...
by design | Sep 5, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Kincannon… the Tax and Spend Mayor At the corner of Gay Street and Summit Hill Drive downtown is the Cradle of Country Music Park, which is a peaceful half-acre plot of land with five trees that have been here for...
by design | Sep 5, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Fall of Congressman Clifford Davis, V By Ray Hill Cliff Davis was sixty-six years old as he faced voters in the Democratic primary in August of 1964. For forty years, Cliff Davis had been a political favorite of the people of Shelby County, but his popularity was...
by design | Aug 29, 2022 | Black, Columnist
Black-Diallo-Miller Residence Hall By Harold Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com On August 4, 2022, my alma mater the University of Georgia held ceremonies naming its newest residence hall, Black-Diallo-Miller Hall honoring the first blacks to enroll as...
by design | Aug 29, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
Inflation ‘Reduction’ Act Will Do The Exact Opposite By John J. Duncan Jr. In a press conference on August 12, 1986, President Ronald Reagan said “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” He...
