by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Bullies make life harder By Joe Rector As has been stated in other pieces of mine, I was an ugly child. No, that doesn’t mean things are different now. A young boy with a burr haircut, buck teeth, a round belly, and popsicle-stick legs has little eye appeal. He is,...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Major
The Amazing Life of Elizabeth ‘Lib’ Peters McCluskey By Ralphine Major I thought she had a look of elegance. She was friendly and kind. She was also a great role model. She was Elizabeth Peters McCluskey—a pastor’s wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Winds of Change? I care about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. Elon Musk By Dr. Jim Ferguson Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t remember so many salutations of “Happy Thanksgiving” as I heard this year. I found it infectious, so I responded in kind....
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Jellico to host a lost treasure forum More Than A Day Away by Mike Steely On Saturday, December 9, I’ll travel up to my hometown, Jellico, to be part of a forum about a lost treasure tale there. Years ago I published “Swift’s Silver Mine and Related Appalachian...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Black, Columnist
The border and the inaction of the Republicans in Congress By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Virtually everyone I know thinks that the southern border is a disaster. I just returned from my annual deer hunting trip in Eagle Pass, Texas,...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
JFK: U.S. Cannot Solve Every World Problem By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On November 16, 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave one of his most famous speeches at the University of Washington in Seattle. The words he spoke then are even more true today,...