by design | Aug 10, 2022 | The Daily Focus
The Second Saturday Concert Series wraps up this Saturday with Rockinfellerz playing at the Cove and Crawdaddy Jones taking the stage at Clayton Park. The free concerts are held from 6 to 8 p.m. June through August on the second Saturday of each month. Attendees are...
by design | Aug 9, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Hummingbirds and other winged creatures are the focus of Ijams Nature Center’s 12th annual Ijams Hummingbird Festival: A Celebration of Wings on Saturday, Aug. 13, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The highlight of this outdoor educational festival is the bird banding...
by design | Aug 8, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Clarence Thomas is one of my living heroes, along with Thomas Sowell. Other heroes have been Milton Friedman and John Lewis. I admired Milton Friedman for showing how basic economics can be applied to...
by design | Aug 8, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few months ago, not long after he was sworn in as New York City’s newest Mayor, Eric Adams was asked why so many people were moving out of the city. Mayor Adams replied: “I don’t blame them for leaving. New York has become...
by design | Aug 8, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea- And that-a further–and the Three But a presumption be- Of Periods of Seas- Unvisited of Shores- Themselves the Verge of Seas to be- Eternity-is Those- Emily Dickinson By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m a stargazer,...
