by design | Sep 12, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Politics can be very mean at times, and one of the cruelest things I have ever seen is the almost gleeful way some on the left have reported the deaths of people who were publicly opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine. The old expression of dancing on...
by design | Sep 12, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
“Let’s start at the beginning, a very good place to start…” —Maria from the Sound of Music By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m a big fan of old movies, especially musicals. But then I’ve listened to Beethoven’s fifth and ninth symphonies at least 100 times with the same...
by design | Sep 12, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black Why would any rational person be a socialist? They wouldn’t. Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The definition fits socialism perfectly. Socialism if implemented always...
by design | Sep 12, 2021 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major Usually, they are from other states, other cities, other communities and small towns. This time, the soldier was from here in Corryton, Tennessee. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss and 12 other brave Americans died on foreign soil. Each of these...
by design | Sep 7, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Caden Rector, like many young people, left for college the other day. He’s attending Western Carolina, where he signed to play baseball. Although he’s Jim’s grandson, the boy was on my mind, so I sent him a text message, wished him well, and told him to...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley School Board Follies Last week, the Knox County Board of Education had some 60 people sign up to speak. What do you suppose had folks all stirred up? Test scores? Curriculum? None of the above. It was, yet again, masks. It seems like nothing has...
