by design | Mar 5, 2024 | The Daily Focus
Eligible Tennessee taxpayers can now use free IRS Direct File TN-2024-03, March 5, 2024 Washington – The IRS announced today that eligible Tennessee taxpayers can now use IRS Direct File, a new service that provides taxpayers with the choice to electronically file...
by design | Mar 4, 2024 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com A couple of years ago I wrote an article on why the progressive media insists that we capitalize the “b” in black when it refers to race. As was the case with the movement of DEI (diversity, equity...
by design | Mar 4, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Ukraine Has Received Mega-Billions From U.S., Other Countries By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com As of mid-January, global aid to Ukraine has reached what the Kiel Institute for the World Economy described as the “staggering” amount of $278 billion. This...
by design | Mar 4, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
Do or Die The world is too much with us. Walt Whitman By Dr. Jim Ferguson Punxsutawney Phil “said” to expect an early spring. He may be correct, but the Pennsylvania groundhog is only right ~50% of the time. My Lenten roses and daffodils are blooming and March seems...
by design | Mar 4, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Real life is not on a screen By Joe Rector I heard on the news the other day that the average teen spends approximately six hours a day on social media and games. Most of us old folks condemn that kind of wasted time until we hear that in our days as teens, we spent...
