by design | Mar 16, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher March has been officially designated by the National Association for Music Education for the observance of Music in Our Schools Month, the time of the year when music education becomes the focus of schools across the nation. Last Tuesday evening, over...
by Mike Steely | Mar 15, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Ever been surprised by something you didn’t expect but it made you happy to find it? So, I’m watching one of my favorite movies, “The African Queen,” and at the end I watched the credits and saw that Knoxville’s James Agee wrote...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 15, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley The Tennessee School Board Association is busy pedaling an editorial written by the Executive Director of the TSBA for publication all across the state. The education bureaucrats are panicking, as it appears the Tennessee General Assembly will finally...
by Ray Hill | Mar 15, 2015 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Two of the most successful politicians of the same era, Huey Pierce Long and Franklin Delano Roosevelt could hardly have been more different. The handsome, courtly Roosevelt was the scion of a famous and wealthy family, the coddled and adored only...
by Joe Rector | Mar 9, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Everywhere I go this winter, I run into folks who are wheezing and sniffing and sneezing and coughing. This year seems to have brought with it plenty of snow, frigid temperatures, and COLDS. The television is bursting with advertisements for medicines...
by design | Mar 9, 2015 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore When I was ten years old, I was walking down a street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when a sweet young lady asked if I would like to go to Sunday School at her church. I said “sure” and that started my love affair with the Mennonite church that continued...
