by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley More Merit Council Politics The Merry-Go-Round that has become the former Sheriff’s Merit (Political) Council has finally held its hearing on the Martha Dooley case. Two former sheriffs were cross-examined; Tim Hutchison and Jimmy “JJ” Jones....
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By Steve Williams Knoxville Catholic faced the ultimate challenge in the Final Four of the TSSAA’s Division II-AA BlueCross Basketball Championships this season. If the Irishmen were going to send longtime head coach Mike Hutchens out a winner in his final game, they...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee had gone Republican in both the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. Volunteer State Democrats had been especially shocked when Adlai Stevenson had lost Tennessee in 1956 as home-state U. S. senator Estes Kefauver had been the vice...
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By Ken Lay Bearden High School girls basketball coach Justin Underwood couldn’t hide his happiness Wednesday night. And who could blame him? Underwood saw his team cruise to the Region 2-4A Championship with a 56-27 victory over Kingston Pike rival Farragut before a...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I wish Vladimir Putin could have seen the video and heard the heartbreaking cries of anguish from the mother in Ukraine as she followed her six-year-old daughter into the emergency room where she died, killed by...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com That Anthony Fauci is truth-challenged should come as no surprise since he is a life-long unelected politician. The old adage now applies: how can you tell if Fauci is lying? His lips are moving. If you...
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By Ken Lay The local wrestling community lost one of its legendary figures on Saturday as Terry Bundren, aka Terry Landell passed away Saturday, Feb. 26. He was 59. Bundren was a longtime fixture in East Tennessee’s wrestling community and a founder of Tennessee...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass By Dr. Jim Ferguson Did you watch it? I didn’t. I never liked watching the annual Presidential SOTU addresses, but I always felt it was my duty as a citizen. That...
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By Steve Williams Playing on one of the state’s best basketball teams that includes five college signees, Jenn Sullivan of Bearden High still stands out. Maybe it’s the extra things she does during a game that don’t show up as statistics in the paper or maybe it’s her...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Like anything in life, sports also can get off track every now and then … A recruiting violation occurs. A rule is broken. A fight breaks out during a contest, etc. And when they do, there are people in positions to determine what the penalties or...
