by Mark Nagi | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Well, here we are again. Another football season for the Tennessee Volunteers, and another coach that is on the proverbial hot seat. Yes, we have certainly been down this road before. Pruitt is the fifth head coach at UT since 2008. That much...
by Joe Rector | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The year 2020 just keeps getting better. We’ve struggled through a presidential election where the incumbent still hasn’t conceded but claims that illegal voting has stolen the race from him. On top of that, the entire world faces a pandemic that in...
by Ralphine Major | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major “In the beginning of my second-class year which would be a college junior, I decided I did not want to make the Navy a career. I resigned near Thanksgiving in 1947 and went to Beckley (West Virginia) to work for my Dad in his store, Neville Maytag...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I often get phone calls from tenants who will start the conversation talking about how terrible their landlord is and how the landlord will fix nothing and they are living in the worst living situation there ever was. Then they get to where...
by design | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. One of my sons-in-law, Jason Brown, recently sent me two articles about the dismal results of online education. The reports were from two school systems very far apart but strikingly similar in their findings. Dr. Joe Gothard, superintendent of...
by design | Dec 7, 2020 | The Daily Focus
MEDIC Regional Blood Center is expanding COVID Convalescent Plasma (CCP) collections in both their centers and through a mobile collections’ initiative. There is a high demand for CCP and to date, MEDIC has not been able to collect to meet that need. “We have been...
by design | Dec 7, 2020 | Public Notice
COURT NOTICES Non-Resident Notice TO: NORRIS JAY HARVEY, IN RE: ASHLEY NICOLE MITCHELL v. NORRIS JAY HARVEY NO. 197998-3 IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE In this Cause, it appearing from the Complaint filed, which is verified, that the Defendant,...
by design | Dec 6, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
https://www.knoxfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/120720_FCF_.pdf Madeline Rogero honored By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Former Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero was honored Friday by the Senior Citizens Home Assistance Service in a virtual zoom...
by Steve Hunley | Dec 6, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi standing in front of her $24,000 refrigerator has never left my mind, especially when the economic policy of the Democratic Party is more Alexandria Ocasio Cortez than John F. Kennedy. Pelosi was showing off her...
by design | Dec 6, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Kalib Fortner broke out on the prep football scene as a sophomore two years ago and capped the 2018 season by being selected the Most Valuable Player in Central’s Class 5A state championship win at the BlueCross Bowl in Cookeville. Over the next two...
