by design | Nov 8, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi If you go to a Powell Panthers football practice, Walter Nolen is pretty much impossible to miss. And college scouts certainly aren’t missing him. The Powell defensive lineman is a consensus 5-star prospect, and one of the top recruits in the nation....
by design | Nov 7, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley On Sunday, October 22, 1989, Jacob Wetterling was riding his bike home from a convenience store where he had gone with his brother Trevor and a friend, Aaron Larson. The boys had gone to rent a video. On the way home, the boys were confronted by a man...
by design | Nov 7, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill I am oftentimes asked about Tennessee’s most enduring statesmen or politicians. Without a doubt, the two most enduring political figures in Tennessee’s modern political history are Kenneth D. McKellar and Cordell Hull. McKellar and Hull were contemporaries...
by design | Nov 7, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The fastest growing political movement in the U.S. and around the world today is a movement against forced vaccinations. And it is a political movement because the left politicized the Covid vaccine right from the start....
by design | Nov 7, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com I hate Jackie Robinson Day (April 15 annually). No I do not hate Jackie Robinson. I love Jackie Robinson. My father planned our summer vacation around the Brooklyn Dodgers schedule. If they were in Brooklyn we stayed with my...
by design | Nov 7, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Beneath an overcast sky the long line stretched into the bleak landscape behind Little Girl. On perhaps her last day, it would soon be her turn to shuffle up the ramp as thousands had already done. Echoing in her mind were her teacher’s words, “We...
