by Mark Nagi | Jan 25, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi I’m speechless. Actually, no I’m not speechless. I’m just perplexed. How does Tennessee’s football program continue to screw things up, time after time? Last week, the University of Tennessee fired Jeremy Pruitt “for cause.” That means they expect that...
by Harold Black | Jan 25, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com Happy New Year. Time Magazine proclaimed 2020 as being the “worse year ever.” Such a headline is a sad commentary on our tastes in that Time is still published and Mad Magazine is not. I doubt if 2020 will rank among the...
by John Duncan | Jan 25, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. As a young girl in Iowa, my mother played the cello. In later years, her main enjoyment, after her grandchildren, was playing a very nice, small organ my father had bought her. I may have gotten my love for music from her, but for most of my...
by Steve Hunley | Jan 24, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Kudzu: an invasive species that is extremely bad for the ecosystem as it invades and smothers other plants and trees under a blanket of leaves, hogging all the sunlight and keeping other species suppressed. The trifecta of the Democrat machine...
by Ray Hill | Jan 24, 2021 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The lives of presidents and kings are usually equally celebrated or condemned, yet Franklin Delano Roosevelt remains one of the most iconic of American presidents to this day. During his lifetime as president, just about every aspect of Roosevelt’s life...
by Jim Ferguson | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
First, they came for President Trump and since I sometimes disagreed with him, I did nothing. Then they came for Republicans and since I was not a member of that Party I did not object. Then they came for conservative media and I did not speak out. Then they came for...
