by design | Jul 6, 2022 | The Daily Focus
~ from the North Knoxville Business and Professionals Association July 8: Nonprofit July Calling our non-profit members. We’re switching it up for the month of July. We want to spotlight our nonprofit members. We will have a series of short nonprofit member spotlights...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
In 2007, Sports Illustrated named Tennessee the “Team of the Decade” for the 1950s. The Vols compiled a 72-31-4 record overall, 38-20-4 in the SEC, and boasted a consensus national title in 1951. There were also two SEC titles (1951 and 1956) and two Heisman...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi I’m not good with change. Never have been. Never will be. I was sad when Rita’s Bakery closed its doors. I went to the Tazewell Pike store a few times a year for over a decade, picking up fancy sugar cookies for my daughter’s birthdays. It was a special...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Sounds like fun! On July 30, 2022, a multi-class reunion is scheduled for all the Gibbs High School classes that have been graduated 50 years or more! The event will take place from 4:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at Corryton Church, 7615 Foster Road,...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The Karns community is up in arms over the proposed construction of Belltown. This development is supposed to be a community within itself. I’ve never known what that is, but the developer, Smithbilt Homes, declares it offers the best of living. It also...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
The left views conservative free-speech as violence. They look at their violence as free-speech. Michael Anton By Dr. Jim Ferguson Summertime is the season of Gordian Knots. No, I’m not using the metaphor of an intractable problem. Nor am I delving into the Ancient...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | The Daily Focus
~ from the League of Women Voters of Knoxville/Knox Co To enable voters to hear the candidates respond to questions about important issues in the Thursday, August 4, Regular Election, the League of Women Voters of Knoxville/Knox Co. is sponsoring a candidate forum in...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Here’s a situation that comes up often in the legal world. An individual will be contemplating legal action, whether it is divorce or something else, and the other side will tell them, “Well, I already talked to an attorney and they told me that...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Happy Birthday America. It’s your 246th birthday. America is unique. Never before had a country been established with the individual, rather than the government, as its nexus. In America the government was...
by design | Jul 5, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In the upside-down world of today, a person can sometimes get in more trouble and controversy for saying something that is true than for saying some politically-correct falsehood. This happened recently to James Patterson,...
