by design | Oct 6, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Republican Rally A Huge Success Last Thursday, Knox County saw its most enthusiastic gathering of Republicans in decades at an old-fashioned rally featuring barbecue and bluegrass music. Over 600 people came through the doors and...
by design | Oct 6, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Southern Gentleman Winfield Dunn Editor’s Note: The Knoxville Focus is running this reprint of Ray Hill’s column from September 2013 on former Governor Winfield Dunn to honor his passing last month. By Ray Hill Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was born July 1, 1927,...
by design | Sep 30, 2024 | Black, Columnist
On the Fed’s rate cut By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com As widely anticipated, the Fed announced a cut in its Fed Funds target rate. Mind you this is not a cut in market interest rates but a cut in the interest rate on overnight bank...
by design | Sep 30, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Kamala Is Pretending To Be Moderate – She Never Has Been By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Kamala Harris and her supporters are attempting to pull off the biggest scam in U.S. political history. They are attempting to fool the American people into believing...
by design | Sep 30, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
The Same Score Two Weeks in a Row? By Tom Mattingly In the 1950s, probably into the 1970s, there was a Saturday morning game day program on WATE, later WETE, radio called “Pigskin Panel,” featuring E. L. “Tip” Tipton, Russ Bebb, Ben Byrd and Ed Harris. It was part of...
by design | Sep 30, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
Day Two “I never knew grief felt so much like fear.” C.S. Lewis By Dr. Jim Ferguson In last week’s essay, I told the story of Martin Luther, a Catholic priest who courageously refused to go against his conscience. He was excommunicated from his church but escaped and...
