by Joe Rector | Sep 8, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The world faces continuing problems: assaults by extremists groups who seek to destroy anything or anyone that opposes them, threats of war from countries with chips on their shoulders, and natural disasters that leave millions homeless and helpless....
by design | Sep 7, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com The Board of Education conducted its annual “reorganization” at the September regular Board meeting last week. Gloria Deathridge nominated Doug Harris (who announced publicly at Monday’s work session he was “throwing his name...
by Ray Hill | Sep 7, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill By 1929, Luke Lea had reached the apex of his political influence in Tennessee. Lea was the undisputed power behind the throne and no one had more influence in the administration of Governor Henry Horton. When Tennessee’s junior United States senator,...
by design | Sep 3, 2015 | Andrews
By Dan Andrews If you are still on the fence about making the drive to Nashville Saturday for the Vols game against the Bowling Green Falcons, here are some links and ideas that might help you make up your mind. Getting There As of 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning,...
by design | Aug 31, 2015 | Andrews, Columnist
By Dan Andrews Long before Coach Jones began building the football program “brick by brick,” Dr. Richard M. Bennett was given the task of making sure Neyland Stadium would not crumble into a pile of bricks. Dr. Bennett is a professor at University of...
by design | Aug 31, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson One of the most iconic and intriguing works of modern art is Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory. You may remember Dali’s visionary landscape of his native Catalonia festooned with melting clocks. One art critic described the surrealistic...
