by Ray Hill | Jul 23, 2017 | Archived Editions, Archives, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Remembering Jake Butcher By Ray Hill rayhill865@gmail.com For those wanting an opportunity to bask in the limelight, it would be well to remember the glare burns far more frequently than it shines. That thought was rekindled yet again in my mind with the passing of...
by Ray Hill | Jul 23, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill When the Tennessee General Assembly reduced the number of Tennessee’s congressional seats from ten to nine, Congressman J. Ridley Mitchell had been displaced. Mitchell’s home county of Cumberland had been placed in the heavily Republican Second District,...
by Ray Hill | Jul 16, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Every ten years legislative and Congressional districts must undergo some changes; redistricting always poses a danger to incumbents. It is not uncommon for a sitting congressman to run for higher office when faced with the elimination of his district. ...
by Ray Hill | Jul 9, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For three decades Gordon Browning had been a force to be reckoned with in Tennessee politics. Following his disastrous attempt to return to the governorship in 1954, Browning was relegated to the status of senior statesman. First elected to Congress in...
by Ray Hill | Jul 2, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Gordon Browning was a veteran of Tennessee’s turbulent and oftentimes brutal political wars. Browning had unseated a twenty-four year incumbent in his first race for Congress in 1920, although he lost the general election to a Republican. Stubborn to a...
by Ray Hill | Jun 25, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill to 1915, United States senators from Tennessee had been elected by the state legislature. That same year Democrats were anticipating a primary, a year in advance of the 1916 general election. The primary would include a run-off election between the two...
