by Ralphine Major | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major The news was reported just days before the start of Memorial Day Weekend. Remains of another American hero had come home. The images were touching as the scene at the airport unfolded. A flag-draped casket rolled past a gathering of family...
by Steve Williams | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Jack Tate had on a short sleeve plaid shirt with stripes of Maroon, White and Grey running through it when I met him for a recent interview. That wasn’t surprising. Jack has been Bearden High through and through for parts of five decades. Tate and...
by Steve Hunley | May 28, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
By Steve Hunley We have many new readers in the past few months from our in depth coverage of Recode Knoxville. For our readers who haven’t heard about Recode yet, it is the wiping out of our current Knoxville zoning code that has sixty years of case law protecting...
by Steve Hunley | May 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The impending resignation of Glen Casada, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, has its sad aspects, whether anybody wants to admit it or not. Democrats are rejoicing because they think the fall of Glen Casada will reap political dividends...
by Ray Hill | May 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill In February of 1945, a war weary and sick Franklin D. Roosevelt was on his way to Crimea in the Soviet Union. Technically in the Ukraine, the Crimea is on a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and was once the playground of the Russian Czars...
by Joe Rector | May 20, 2019 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Without exception, May is my favorite month of the year. Yes, it’s my birthday month, but so many other things are imprinted on my memory, and they bring smiles to me whenever they surface. The other night, I scooped up from the back yard our dog Sadie’s...
