by design | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Though we hear much these days about concussions, football players are not the only victims of head injury. I aver that Americans have had their hearts and souls and minds assaulted for years, and the attacks just keep increasing. No one knows in...
by Steve Hunley | Oct 1, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley For six months I live without NFL football and I reckon I can live without it for the other six months. Evidently I’m not alone. Attendance is down and so are viewers. Perhaps more disturbing to team owners, so is revenue. Clearly, folks are unhappy...
by Ray Hill | Oct 1, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee had been staunchly for Woodrow Wilson, both in his 1912 campaign for the presidency and his 1916 reelection campaign. Tennessee’s junior United States senator, Kenneth D. McKellar, had been a fervent admirer of President Wilson as a member of the...
by Mike Steely | Oct 1, 2017 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Want a visit to the past? Interested in ghost towns or almost ghost towns? Probably no place in our region is more typical of small, 1880s era towns than Bulls Gap in southern Hawkins County. Located between Morristown and Greeneville the little town began before the...
by Steve Williams | Sep 26, 2017 | Columnist, The Daily Focus, Williams
By Steve Williams Tennessee’s football season is at the crossroads and the Butch Jones era at UT could be, too. A win over Georgia this coming Saturday, however, would put the Vols back in the SEC Eastern Division race. But a loss would deflate the hopes of...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Sep 25, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan It isn’t very common in this day and age and in this country for individuals to get married when they are extremely young. It used to be much more common. You may have heard of individuals getting married before they have even turned 18 years...
