by Mark Nagi | Mar 13, 2017 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Tennessee will have a different look in 2017, thanks in part to some significant off season moves by Butch Jones. Four new assistants have joined the Vols coaching staff, including Brady Hoke, the former head coach at Michigan. “Right now I love my...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 12, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Earl Hoffmeister passed away last week at 90. Many readers likely knew Earl Hoffmeister personally, as did I. I was one of those who was actually taught by Hoffmeister. Quite a few years ago, I was a student in Earl Hoffmeister’s mechanical...
by Ray Hill | Mar 12, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill As President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to approach Congress to revise the Neutrality Act, the opposition in Congress was formidable. Of course the Roosevelt administration was aided by some equally imposing...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 12, 2017 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The timeline of events as told by the late Woodrow Luttrell is packed full of history. Words that were meant to communicate with his family’s younger generations are being shared with Focus readers, giving a rare glimpse of life during the early 1900s. Woodrow...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 6, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan If you have ever been in a courtroom, then you may have noticed the gentleman up near the judge’s bench, in dress jackets, wearing badges and surveying the crowd. Who do these people think they are anyway? They are not lawyers, they are not...
by Ralphine Major | Mar 6, 2017 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major With only one snow and record-breaking warm temperatures, January and February are behind us. March has arrived with her usual windy conditions. As I pen this column, several schools have already dismissed in anticipation of the thunderstorms...
