TDOT Announces 2nd Annual No Trash November

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Department of Transportation’s (TDOT) Nobody Trashes Tennessee announces its second No Trash November, a month-long statewide initiative encouraging Tennesseans to participate in cleanup events in their communities. Last year’s...

Biased Anyone?

Biased Anyone?   By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The Wall Street Journal had an article about a nurse who was fired because she refused to take a test to reveal any implicit bias. Her reasons mainly involved her insisting she was...

Issues Are More Important Than The Candidates

Issues Are More Important Than The Candidates   By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com   If I had been voting in either of the Republican Primaries for U.S. Senate in Georgia or Pennsylvania this year, I would not have voted for Herschel Walker or Dr....

Points of View

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 [These]...

A nonfamily reunion

A nonfamily reunion By Joe Rector A few weeks ago, Amy and I attended an event that was strange. We usually are good at finding such things. This one was a gathering at Admiral Farragut Park, and we had a fun time, even though it was confusing to understand. To begin...