by design | Apr 29, 2025 | The Daily Focus
Free Healthcare Clinic This Weekend in Oak Ridge to Address Limited Access to Care RAM to provide free dental, vision and medical services May 3-4 In many parts of the United States, for millions of Americans, access to basic healthcare is a challenge at best and an...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘The most difficult decision I’ve had to make in my life’ By Tom Mattingly Sometimes, the best coaching search is no search at all. Consider Dec. 4, 1976, a day all of Big Orange Country had breathlessly awaited. A Tennessee legend was coming home, nearly...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Fire Jay Powell? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com President Trump has been itching to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome (Jay) Powell. Although he appointed Powell to the post in 2018, Trump has found that he cannot publicly shame Powell...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Trade War – You Can Root For Trump Or For China By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com When I was a batboy for the Knoxville Smokies in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I did it for free the first and second seasons and then for $1.50 a game after that. In...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
The 80/20 Conundrum People elected me to do the job. President Donald Trump By Dr. Jim Ferguson How can a group be on the wrong side of every issue important to the American people? I’m not referring to the radicalized TDS types you see marching in the...