by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Ferguson
Persecution One is only poor, only if they choose to be. Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m sure you have felt it by now. It’s cooler and less humid; fall is in the air. We are blessed to live in the best part of the country with four distinct...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Major
Nature’s Majestic Trees By Ralphine Major “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” The first line of Joyce Kilmer’s poem entitled “Trees” always comes to mind when I see the towering oak trees, leafy maple trees, huge beech trees, and many more....
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Amy and I made our way to Isle of Palms for an annual vacation. We’ve been coming here for years and believe that it’s the best place to spend a week. Over that time, we’ve left early on more than one occasion for a variety of reasons. We are lucky not...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Keeping fans breathless until the game ended By Tom Mattingly There were 53 tie games across the history of the Tennessee football program. The tie game went out of fashion after the 1995 football season. In 1955, Bowden Wyatt’s first season, Tennessee and Georgia...
by design | Sep 25, 2023 | The Daily Focus
Self-serve OKed by city beer board By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com The Knoxville City Council Beer Board hears all types of beer permit requests, from local organizations holding public events to local convenience stores with new owners. Sometimes...
by design | Sep 24, 2023 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Holt kicks off campaign for Knox County Commission By Ken Lay Garrett Holt officially announced his intention to run for Knox County Commission late Thursday afternoon at a kickoff event at Scramble Jakes in Rocky Hill. Holt, 29, said that his intention is to serve...
by design | Sep 24, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Singh Running For Johnson’s Seat City Councilwoman Seema Singh is running for Gloria Johnson’s seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Johnson has announced she is running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate...
by design | Sep 24, 2023 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Local veterans honor POW-MIA Day By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Several dozen veterans, their families and citizens met at the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial at World’s Fair Park recently to honor and remember those military personnel missing in...
by design | Sep 24, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Frederick Gillet & the Fight for Speaker By Ray Hill The mutiny earlier this year inside the GOP caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives is not new, although it hasn’t happened in a long while. In fact, the last time it did occur was one hundred years...
