by design | Jul 8, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Fireworks By Joe Rector The day began with my rising at 5:00 a.m. to go to work. By 5:30, I was mowing tee boxes with the mower headlights on. By 9:00, I was finished and on the way home. Once there, I took a shower to wash the grass clippings and mud splatters away....
by design | Jul 8, 2024 | Columnist, Steely
Visiting Big Stone Gap A Day Away By Mike Steely Just over two hours northeast of Knoxville is a special small town loaded with history, scenery and myth. Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is in Wise County and near the Virginia-Kentucky state line and at the foot of a gap in...
by design | Jul 7, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Liberal Propaganda Exposed During First Presidential Debate By Steve Hunley When Special Counsel Robert Hur found that Joe Biden was “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the White House went into a tizzy to do damage control, wailing such...
by design | Jul 7, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The War Referendum: Congressman Louis Ludlow of Indiana By Ray Hill Louis Ludlow is largely forgotten today, but during his heyday in the 1930s, he was one of the most well-known members of Congress. A newspaperman by trade, Ludlow became famous for proposing...
by design | Jul 1, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Up From Poverty By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Go back in your family’s history and you will find poverty. I am not poor. Neither is anyone in my family. I have a PhD. Both my children have MBAs. My late brother had a PhD as do his two...
by design | Jul 1, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
I Am Very Grateful For Beta Theta Boule Honor By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com My Dad told me many years ago, “You know how long it takes people to forget you when you leave office?…About as long as it takes the ripples to disappear when you throw a...
