by design | Apr 3, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For forty years, Brazilla Carroll Reece had been the congressman from the highly Republican First Congressional District of Tennessee with a few interruptions. Carroll Reece had first gone to Congress in 1920 after beating an entrenched incumbent in a...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com As if the month of March does not have enough distractions with the unpredictable basketball tournaments, this year Mother Nature decided to add to the drama. After spring-like temperatures teased us for a few days, a huge snow...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
I’m not as optimistic about the future as I was in the past. Yogi Berra By Dr. Jim Ferguson I am not a numerologist. However, there’s something about numbers as multiples of ten. Example’s are a 50th birthday or a 25th anniversary. Of course there are...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com How poor are the American poor? The 2020 Census says that 34 million Americans live in poverty. The official poverty line for a family of four is $27,750 or $6,937 per person. Add $4,720 for each...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I have great respect for my fellow Focus columnist, Dr. Harold Black, and admire him for many reasons. First and foremost, I admire the courage he had to be one of the first African-Americans to attend the University...
by design | Mar 28, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi So far in the relatively short tenure of Josh Heupel as Tennessee’s football coach, the Vols have been good, but not great on the recruiting trail. Tennessee’s Class of 2022 was ranked 17th in the nation and 8th in the SEC. Those numbers will need to...
