KCHD offers food safety tips ahead of Thanksgiving

KCHD offers food safety tips ahead of Thanksgiving   Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and that means meal preparation is at the top of everyone’s mind. To make sure your Thanksgiving meal is prepared safely, the Knox County Health Department is offering food safety...

‘Because he wouldn’t have made it’

‘Because he wouldn’t have made it’ By Tom Mattingly Looking at the November football schedule begs an important question for us old-time Vol fans. Where the heck is the “Rambling Wreck,” AKA Georgia Tech? It’s been 36 years since the Vols and Tech last...

The buyout life is undefeated

The buyout life is undefeated By Mark Nagi Imagine that you are underachieving at your job to the point that your employer doesn’t want you to come to work anymore… and that said employer will pay you $77 million to go away. Pretty sweet deal, right? Well, all you...

I Am Amazed At How Fast Time Goes By

I Am Amazed At How Fast Time Goes By By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I am always amazed at how fast time passes. At the end of next month, I will have been retired for five years. When I announced in 2017 that I was going to retire at the end of the next...