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What’s Wrong with Putting America First?

by Steve Hunley | Jun 17, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

“Ask not what your country can do for you – – – ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, 1961. By Steve Hunley I’ll be the first to admit the United States has changed a lot in the fifty-seven years since John F....

Bitter Devils & Better Angels

by Steve Hunley | Jun 10, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley   “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln   Editorial writers for the Nashville Tennessean and the Memphis Commercial Appeal...

The Obama – Trump Double Standard

by Steve Hunley | Jun 3, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who read them, in as much as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” – Thomas Jefferson   Using that quote may not be...

Restorative Justice and Disparities In Schools

by Steve Hunley | May 28, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley   The Disparities in Educational Outcomes Committee met recently at Fulton High School.  Much of this has to do with implementing restorative justice in the drive to decriminalize certain behaviors.  The policy originated with the Obama...

Fake News Abets Fake Investigation

by Steve Hunley | May 20, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Shoes are beginning to drop as the mainstream media hurries to excuse methods they would have used to ruin careers and lives in other circumstances.  Tucker Carlson had as his guest writer and senior editor of The Federalist Mollie Hemingway last week...

Burchett’s ‘Switcheroo’ On The MOU

by Steve Hunley | May 13, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Mayor Tim Burchett has always liked the imagery of being the white knight arriving just in the nick of time to save the damsel in distress.  It seems to be a scenario Burchett simply cannot resist.  The latest episode of the intrepid Burchett’s...
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