by Ralphine Major | Feb 8, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com February, the “heart” month that emphasizes the importance of heart health. My first story printed in this weekly column was about this very subject. On February 7, 2011, “The Real McCoy” was published in The Focus sharing about...
by Harold Black | Feb 8, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com Two movements have characterized the left’s takeover of our schools, politics and media. They are the cancel culture and the muzzle culture. While most of us have heard about the cancel culture fewer of us have paid...
by John Duncan | Feb 8, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. The deployment of 26,000 National Guard troops to Washington for the inauguration was totally unnecessary and was a waste of many millions of taxpayer dollars that could and should have been spent for better things. It was done purely for...
by Steve Hunley | Feb 7, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Legislators Show Board Members A Paddle The Knox County Legislative delegation did a mighty interesting thing recently and folks ought to know about it. Every member of the legislative delegation – – – Senators Randy McNally, Becky...
by Ray Hill | Feb 7, 2021 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill William Gannaway Brownlow was one of the most controversial figures in Tennessee history. “Parson” Brownlow was highly controversial during his own time and few figures ever relished the political battles he waged more than the man who was a pastor,...
by Jim Ferguson | Feb 1, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell By Dr. Jim Ferguson After Obama was elected President in 2008, Rush Limbaugh was asked to write a 400-word essay regarding the new administration. Assertively, Rush...
