by design | Sep 21, 2015 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore Since the beginning of time, everyone who has been born has to remember the date. Adam and Eve probably didn’t remember the date but I know they remembered the day when God made Adam from dust and Eve was made from Adam’s rib. It has to be...
by Steve Williams | Sep 21, 2015 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Butch Jones told Tennessee football fans and the media last week his team had to learn how to “close out” games, after that inexcusable 31-24 double overtime loss to Oklahoma. The way I see it, Jones needs to learn how to start a game. On a night...
by design | Sep 20, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com Knox County Board of Education Members gathered at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens Welcome Center on Friday for their annual retreat, facilitated by Kathy Hamilton, Chief Operating Officer of HealthCare 21 Business Coalition....
by Ray Hill | Sep 20, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill As with most everything in Tennessee, Senator Kenneth D. McKellar felt a proprietary interest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. McKellar had been instrumental in helping along the park, sponsoring legislation with Senator Claude A. Swanson...
by design | Sep 14, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Have we forgotten? Maybe we just don’t care anymore. Perhaps we’ve been led to such a degree of segregation that our politics not only shape our optics, but our reality. I know where I was on 9-11-2001. Do you? Every one of the Greatest Generation...
by Joe Rector | Sep 14, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I discovered that we no longer have to wait for our drinks to chill before consuming them. Someone with too little to do in life insists that all of our favorite liquids can be instantly icy by spraying them with compressed air. Remember when we had to...
