by design | Apr 13, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Do They Think We Are Stupid? Four and a half years after the fact, and in some instances longer, the New York Times is coming to grips with what many of us have known as fact. Zeynep Tufekci, a Times columnist and professor of...
by design | Apr 13, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Cordell Hull and Reciprocal Trade By Ray Hill Tariffs are much in the headlines these days, and it occurred to me that it would be an appropriate time for a column relating to reciprocal trade treaties. Many readers may not know that it was a Tennessean who was...
by design | Apr 7, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Democrat Governor Says His Party Is Toxic By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Many political observers think that Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, is the man most likely to be the Democrat candidate for president in 2028. That is why...
by design | Apr 7, 2025 | Black, Columnist
The U.S. Military: Is there a DOGE in its future? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com In arguing against the nomination of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, the Rev. Senator Honorable Doctor Raphael Warnock said, “As a voice for...
by design | Apr 7, 2025 | Columnist, Nagi
Final Four Eludes Vols, Again… By Mark Nagi Let’s start by saying that two things can be accurate at the same time. Tennessee’s men’s basketball team had another terrific season… and Tennessee’s men’s basketball team had a disappointing end to that same season. For...
by design | Apr 7, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The Vols were ‘back’ and in a big way By Tom Mattingly Has there ever been a better fourth quarter rally than in the 1964 Georgia Tech game, played Nov. 7 at Grant Field in Atlanta? It was the seventh game in Doug Dickey’s first year as Tennessee head...
