by design | Feb 13, 2024 | The Daily Focus
NEW West Knox County Early Voting Polling Place ~ from the Knox County Election Commission With the closure of Farragut Town Hall for 2024, the Knox County Election Commission is opening a new early voting location for the March 5, 2024 election at the: West Knox...
by design | Feb 13, 2024 | The Daily Focus
Singh suspends campaign to seek Gloria Johnson’s state house seat By Mike Steely Knoxville City Councilwoman Seema Singh has suspended her campaign in the Democratic Primary for District 90’s Tennessee House Seat. Singh, who represents the city’s Third District and is...
by design | Feb 12, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Finding My Roots By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com My youngest granddaughter is named Haley. Her mother was in Tennessee’s MBA program and went with me to visit Alex Haley – a fellow University of Tennessee faculty member – at his farm in...
by design | Feb 12, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Three Movies I Think You Would Enjoy By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com During most of my working career I very seldom ever went to a movie theater and only rarely watched one on television. However, there are two fairly recent movies, “Phantom of the Open”...
by design | Feb 12, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
Chaos We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth. Abraham Lincoln By Dr. Jim Ferguson It was December 1862 and the war was not going well for President Abraham Lincoln. Elected just two years before, he was the first president of the newly formed...