by design | Sep 18, 2024 | The Daily Focus
KCHD to Recognize Senior Fall Prevention Awareness Day The Knox County Health Department and the Knoxville-Knox County Senior Safety Task Force will host the annual Fall Prevention Awareness Day event at the John T. O’Connor Senior Center on Friday, September 20 from...
by design | Sep 17, 2024 | The Daily Focus
Officers, first responders graduated Friday from Crisis Intervention Team training A group of thirty law enforcement and security officers, first responders and medical staff graduated from Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training on Friday, September 13, 2024. This...
by design | Sep 16, 2024 | Black, Columnist
The stupid party strikes again! By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The Democrats govern by raising taxes and increasing handouts. How do the Republicans govern? The answer is very badly. The Republicans are in the majority in the House of...
by design | Sep 16, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Reason Cecil’s Grocery, Part 2 Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series that was originally published in the September 26, 2016, issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I am now 69 and have...
by design | Sep 16, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Disappointing summer By Joe Rector I’ve blinked my eyes, and the summer is gone. For the first time in my life, I’m saying it’s about time this season from hell ended. Normally, I declare that the hot months are my favorite ones, but life this year has been less than...