by design | Aug 29, 2023 | The Daily Focus
RAM Celebrates Life, Legacy of Stan Brock; Announces Knoxville Clinic 2024 28th-Annual Knoxville Clinic set for three days in January 2024 Remote Area Medical – RAM® – a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality dental, vision and medical...
by design | Aug 28, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In 2016 I became one of the earliest members of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president. I did this because I believed he was the least hawkish and the least likely to get us into another unnecessary war. I had voted...
by design | Aug 28, 2023 | Black, Columnist
No More Rule Of Law By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I am probably the last to admit it but we are in trouble as a country. We have become more polarized than at any point in our history save the Civil War. All the polls indicate that the...
by design | Aug 28, 2023 | Columnist, Steely
Madisonville and ‘A Boy Named Sue’ A Day Away By Mike Steely What in the world would link Madisonville to the Johnny Cash hit song, “A Boy Named Sue?” There is no obvious connection except that a prominent male attorney from Monroe County who took part in the famous...
by design | Aug 28, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Football under the lights By Tom Mattingly Before the 1972 season, night games were not part of the Tennessee football experience. There were no lights at Shields-Watkins Field/Neyland Stadium, and the Vols played sparingly under the lights on the road or in bowl...