by design | Mar 6, 2024 | The Daily Focus
The Tennessee Valley Fair Foundation is now accepting applications for the Dwight Kessel Leadership Scholarship. This one-time $1,000 scholarship will be granted to an East Tennessee graduating high school senior. For requirements, information, and the application,...
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...