by design | Nov 23, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Magical elves, festive flavors and holidays happenings come to Downtown Knoxville It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays in Downtown Knoxville with immersive experiences for residents and visitors of all ages, including the return of The Elf on the Shelf®...
by design | Nov 22, 2022 | The Daily Focus
Thanksgiving travelers will not be delayed by construction on Tennessee roads during this holiday. TDOT will halt all lane closure activity on interstates and state highways in anticipation of higher traffic volumes across the state. All construction-related lane...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
I Hope Everyone Has A Happy Thanksgiving By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City from 1932 to 1984. He died on Christmas Eve in 1993 at the age of 95. He wrote The Power of...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
Visiting Hot Springs, North Carolina A Day Away by Mike Steely I’ll bet you didn’t know that the French Broad River, which joins the Holston River in Knoxville to become the Tennessee River, gets some of its water from a very strange source. In the mountains of North...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
Do You Want to Be a County Historian? By Jedidiah McKeehan How would you like to be the resident historian for your county? There might be an opening! Tennessee Code Annotated section 5-18-101 states, “The legislative body of each county shall appoint some person of...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Politics is downstream from culture. Andrew Breitbart By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve never been a fan of comics. Perhaps the only exception is the single-cell comics of Gary Larson. I loved Larson’s caricatures and creatures, and his witty and pithy observations. And I...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
Critical thinking By Joe Rector Critical thinking is defined as “the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.” This skill is taught in schools today, but the explanation of it, and the assignments that are paired with the term make...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Major
Turkeys and Thanksgiving By Ralphine Major They are a common sight in our rural community. Almost daily, small flocks of wild turkeys can be seen roaming in pasture fields and yards. Months ago, a particular flock had several little ones that got hemmed up inside our...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
What generation? By Tom Mattingly In this business, people are always asking intriguing questions, whether it’s on the street, in restaurants, via E-mail, or on the telephone. It’s the stuff of which memories are made. A whole host of memories revolves around Sunday...
by design | Nov 21, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Admit it. You didn’t have high preseason expectations for the Tennessee Volunteers football team. I mean, how could you? You’d seen the Vols lose game after game for most of the last 15 years. They had lost 15 in a row to Alabama, beaten Florida only once...
