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Alternative Facts? You Be the Judge: My Reply to a Letter from Buzz Thomas

by Steve Hunley | Feb 26, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Last week’s editorial “Are they Planning to Pick Your Pockets? Beware of Indexed Annual Tax Increases” brought a letter from Interim Superintendent Buzz Thomas that starts off as follows: “One of your recent editorials had some ‘alternative facts’ I...

Are They Planning to Pick Your Pockets? Beware of “Indexed” (Annual) Tax Increases

by Steve Hunley | Feb 19, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Look out people, it’s not only Governor Haslam looking to increase your taxes by raising the gas tax. School folks met with members of the County Commission last week and are poking at property taxes; in fact, there was mention of asking the state...

Jimmy Duncan is Right

by Steve Hunley | Feb 12, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Both the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Maryville Daily Times have given coverage to some folks castigating Congressman John J. “Jimmy” Duncan for refusing to hold a special town hall meeting – – – just for them.  Naturally, after...

Change is on the Way, Part 2

by Steve Hunley | Feb 5, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Evidently the mainstream media learned not a blessed thing following the election of Donald Trump.  The media is abuzz with varying headlines, barely bothering to hide their continuing bias, impugning every choice Trump makes for his Cabinet.  For...

A Change is on the Way

by Steve Hunley | Jan 29, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Most of the folks who voted for Donald Trump wanted some kind of change in Washington, D.C.   There were doubtless folks who likely voted for Trump in the hope of some minor, albeit meaningful changes in the way things are done.  There were probably a...

Alexander Shines in Committee Hearings

by Steve Hunley | Jan 22, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:

By Steve Hunley Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Chairman of the U. S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) had the task of holding hearings on the nomination of President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as U. S. Secretary of...
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