by Joe Rector | Aug 26, 2019 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector We’re living in a country where lines aren’t so easily drawn. Oh sure, the GOP and Democrats have staked their claims to sides of issues. But even in that case, the absolute truth doesn’t exist. Plenty of Republicans around the country don’t buy in to...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 25, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The biggest issue in the coming City of Knoxville elections is, without a doubt, Recode. Knoxville’s longest serving mayor, Victor Ashe, has appropriately termed it a massive “rezoning” package and indeed it does affect virtually every property within...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 25, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, The Daily Focus
It has come to my attention, through social and other media, that in last week’s Publisher’s Position I incorrectly identified 2019 city council candidate Amelia Parker as having dropped the “F bomb” while addressing city council about an issue at a council meeting in...
by Ray Hill | Aug 25, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Prentice Cooper of Shelbyville, three times governor of Tennessee, had announced he would once again seek to become the Volunteer State’s chief executive on New Year’s day in 1958. The sixty-two year old Cooper was one of many prospective candidates all...
by design | Aug 19, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Not infrequently, readers ask me why I sometimes use words that might not be commonplace. I’m not trying to be pedantic (ostentatiously learned), but challenging! And sometimes the perfect word is just that – the perfect word which succinctly...
by design | Aug 19, 2019 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore I have a piano and I love to play on it. When I was very young a friend of mine had a piano and I would love to sit there and pretend I could play songs. When in school I made very good marks in Music class and learned the notes of the scale,...
