by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Overblown emotions on games By Joe Rector (This piece was written a couple of weeks ago, but it continues for sports fans every weekend.) At this moment, I’m sitting on a couch at my daughter’s house in Hendersonville. I’m watching the Vols piddle away a football game...
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
A classic case of getting people’s attention By Tom Mattingly Interesting things can happen when one coach leaves and another takes his place. For the new coach, it’s a classic case of getting people’s attention and showing they mean business. Things get “real.” Very...
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
Tennessee/Alabama is finally a rivalry By Mark Nagi For 16 years, Nick Saban ruled the world of college football. He built a freight train at Alabama, and at times it felt like it would never run out of gas. There was nowhere that pain was felt more than Knoxville....
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Trump’s tariffs: A Primer By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Donald Trump calls himself the Tariff Man. He loves tariffs and calls them “the greatest thing ever invented.” He wants a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, an across-the-board 20%...
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Some Of Our Leaders Are Putting Other Countries First By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Some of our leaders seem to care more about other countries, e.g., Ukraine and Israel, than they do about our own. Once again, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has...
by design | Oct 27, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley City Voters: Vote NO On Amendment 2 Those voting inside the City of Knoxville need to remember there is a very important referendum question at the end of the ballot for consideration. The city government is proposing to change...
