by design | Feb 5, 2025 | The Daily Focus
UTIA Experts Recommend Biosecurity Efforts to Help Stop Spread of Avian Influenza Extension Publications Provide Critical Tips for Keeping Flocks Healthy Large-scale commercial poultry producers and small backyard flock owners should review their biosecurity practices...
by design | Feb 4, 2025 | The Daily Focus
Join Pilot’s Annual Heart Month Campaign to Take on Heart Disease and Stroke In honor of Heart Month this February, Pilot is calling on guests to join the fight against heart disease and stroke. Marking its eighth year of supporting lifesaving research and heart...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Will Trump observe Black History Month? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com When I was young we observed Black History Week. In 1926 the eminent historian Carter Woodson proclaimed the second week in February “Black History Week.” This was...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Los Angeles Fires Made Worse By Environmental Extremists By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A few days before the horrendous fires started in Los Angeles, the New York Times carried an article about the huge 1970s controversy over the snail darter that...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Whirlwind Trump has won and we have lost. Panel discussion at World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos, Switzerland By Dr. Jim Ferguson It has been breathtaking to watch President Trump since January 20, 2025, which some are calling “liberation day.” His energy seems...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Water By Joe Rector This past Sunday, our minister gave the second in a series on the book of John. She discussed the significance of water for Christians and the many things for which it is a symbol. Of course, baptism is the most obvious one. After church, I began...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Lost weekends’ By Tom Mattingly Over the years, there have been several “lost weekends” over the course of Tennessee athletics, a time when everything that could go wrong did. The recent Vanderbilt hoops weekend was one of them, two one-point losses at...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
Super Bowl LIX Preview By Mark Nagi Ugh. Are we really doing this again? Super Bowl LIX is coming up on Sunday, featuring the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs. Like the dynastic Patriots, the Chiefs are the darlings of the league and seem to get every break known to...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Public Notice
court notices NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION TO: RICHARD MANAGAN IN THE MATTER OF: DELANEY ANN MANAGAN, a minor juvenile DOB: JUNE 18, 2011 DAVIDSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION 24 JT 78 ...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | The Daily Focus
Local family unlocks new home with support from SouthEast Bank and Knoxville Habitat for Humanity Recent key ceremony celebrated “Bipartisan Build” in honor of Former County Executive Dwight Kessel and Former Commissioner Tank Strickland With a key donation of $15,000...
