by Steve Hunley | Nov 11, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The recent midterm election in Tennessee was historic. I double checked my facts and Bill Lee is the first Republican governor-elect to take over from a member of his own party since 1869. Since 1970’s election of Republican Winfield Dunn, Tennesseans...
by Mark Nagi | Nov 11, 2018 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Alex Norman The most highly anticipated men’s basketball season in years got underway in solid fashion for Tennessee with two victories. On Tuesday, November 6th the Vols beat Lenoir-Rhyne 86-41. Over 16,000 fans saw the Vols defeat head coach Rick Barnes’s...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I know the question that has been burning in your mind. It’s like an itch that you have needed scratched for a long time. Well I am here to answer your question and scratch that itch. What is the question that has been gnawing in your...
by design | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson By the time you read this essay I will be in Portland, Oregon to see my new granddaughter, and, of course, her now big sister, Cleo. It’s hard to be contemporaneous when an essay has to be written the week before it runs in The Focus. However, I’m...
by Steve Williams | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
Editor’s Note: When the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association started its football classification system in the fall of 1969, The Knoxville Focus’ Steve Williams was a senior at Clinton High School and covering the Clinton Dragons for his hometown newspaper,...
by Ralphine Major | Nov 5, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major “When he was at Lincoln Memorial University (LMU), he was able to run track. He ran so fast, he was nicknamed Phantom,” Rada said. She was referring to her father, the late Dr. A. D. Simmons, who would eventually become the only medical doctor in...
