by design | May 19, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Dominant recollections from across the years’ By Tom Mattingly Here follows a perspective of a lifetime of watching and commenting about sports and assessing its impact on otherwise sane and sensible people. Now is the time to assess what it all means. A...
by design | May 18, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley According To Sentinel, The City Can Do No Wrong The Knoxville News Sentinel is now whining about the $60 million “pedestrian” bridge along South Knoxville’s waterfront as it tries to wail about waste and overspending in...
by design | May 18, 2025 | Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
From Big Band Leader to Politician Victor A. Meyers Victor Aloysius Meyers lived to be 93 years old, a fact which astonished some of those who knew him. Tacoma, Washington, attorney John J. O’Connell said, “You’d think a man who had that much fun tasting the good...
by design | May 12, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Trump saves the Canadian Liberals while throwing stones By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Canada just asserted its sovereignty. Before Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian Liberals were on the run. A sluggish economy and the boorish tactics of...
by design | May 12, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
A Joke That I Fell For Completely By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com When I was in Congress, one of my committees was the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. This was good for East Tennessee because, as the chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee, I...
by design | May 12, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
The Theodicy Question What is essential is invisible to the eyes. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry By Dr. Jim Ferguson Any compassionate person struggles with injustice, the antipode of fairness. Many moons ago, my children would occasionally complain that I wasn’t being...
