by design | Jul 31, 2023 | Columnist, Major
First Day of School By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It may not have had the flair or fanfare seen in many social posts today, but the picture shown here was taken on one of my first days of school in the early sixties. Mother used her Kodak camera to capture...
by design | Jul 31, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Sharing the Dark with Neighbors By Joe Rector The tree man dug in the apparatuses on his feet and began climbing the dead pine tree. It stood at least 75 feet tall with long, brittle branches from mid-trunk to the top. He cut whole limbs and let them crash to the...
by design | Jul 30, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Johnson vs. Blackburn? Word is trickling out that state Representative Gloria Johnson will seek the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat currently held by Marsha Blackburn. While Johnson hasn’t officially announced her...
by design | Jul 30, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Georgia’s Little New Deal: Governor Eurith D. Rivers By Ray Hill One of the phenomena of the coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was the number of states that elected governors who tried to emulate the president inasmuch as they put into place what were frequently...
by design | Jul 24, 2023 | Black, Columnist
How to Stop Bank Runs By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Marriner Eccles, who was chairman of the Fed from 1934 to 1948, was reputed to say that the main problem with banking was that there were 13,000 banks in the U.S. and not that...
by design | Jul 24, 2023 | Columnist, Duncan
There have been many changes since the 50s and 60s By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The publication date of this issue of The Focus is three days after my 76th birthday on July 21. I find it hard to believe that I am this old, but I also feel blessed...
