by design | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “It is enough that people know there was an election. The people who cast votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin I cannot accept a president elected by deceit. More than 72 million Americans...
by design | Nov 16, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Junior Achievement of East Tennessee, in partnership with local businesses and education partners, is proud to present the JA Miss Business Virtual Experience for young women across East Tennessee. Typically, in person, this unique one-day event has gone virtual this...
by Joe Rector | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector It’s been more than a week since the presidential election occurred, but we’re still waiting for one candidate to concede and another to begin the transition process. Some Americans are angry and deny the outcome of the election. They declare that...
by Ralphine Major | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Fall———-Football———-Fun!!! It is one of the most exciting seasons of the school year. The best part of the Gibbs Eagles’ season may have come during the Gibbs High School (GHS) Homecoming 2020 activities. GHS...
by design | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. Donald Trump lost the presidential election because of the extreme bias of the national news media. This bias was the main cause of the extreme hatred that millions developed for the president. The hatred was so strong that one analyst said that...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
Knew or Should Have Known By Jedidiah McKeehan Often I will speak to individuals who tell me they have received some horrific injury at someone’s business or on someone’s property because they fell down stairs or slipped on some surface. While I sympathize with these...
by Tom Mattingly | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly In 1926, as former Vol fullback Dr. Andy Kozar has written, Capt. Robert R. Neyland had to “lock his jaw” with Dean Nathan Washington Dougherty and take on the baseball and track coaches to get enough players to hold spring practice. “You hired me to...
by Mark Nagi | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Let me tell you… no one does a coaching search like Tennessee. Lane Kiffin’s midnight run led to a wild search by athletics director Mike Hamilton that finished with the inept Derek Dooley installed as the Vols new head coach in 2010. When Dooley’s...
by design | Nov 16, 2020 | Public Notice
Foreclosure NOTICES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, TRAVIS HOLLIFIELD and wife, TRACY HOLLIFIELD, executed a Promissory Note payable to Commercial Bank on April 4, 2012 in the original principal amount of $579,900.00 (hereinafter referred to...
by design | Nov 15, 2020 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Birdie’s Boutique offers trendy fashions By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “New and trendy” is the theme chosen by the two partners for Birdie’s Boutique. The new women’s fashion and accessory shop will hold its Grand Opening on Black Friday, November...
