by design | Apr 18, 2022 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com At the end of March, the stock market panicked when the rate on the two-year Treasury briefly rose above the rate on the ten-year Treasury bond. This phenomenon is called an inversion of the Treasury yield...
by design | Apr 18, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com In my focus column last week, I mentioned the last national news article written about my career in Congress. Published in December of 2018 in news magazine The Week, it said: “He looked out for the interests of Main Street...
by design | Apr 18, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan You have probably never been questioned or arrested by the police, but, in the unlikely case this happens in the future, here are some tips to keep in mind and some misconceptions presented by movies and TV that you may want to avoid. When...
by design | Apr 17, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Bud Armstrong Will Always Put “We The People” First It is no surprise to anyone that a few lawyers aren’t big boosters of former Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong. It was Armstrong who streamlined much of the processes from which...
by design | Apr 17, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Every so often I am reminded of my age by recalling those leaders of my youth; most of them are gone now. Howard Baker, Bill Brock, John Duncan, Sr., Jimmy Quillen and Robin Beard. Former governor Winfield Dunn is still very much with us, thank God. It...
by design | Apr 17, 2022 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve WIlliams Elston Turner is in the fourth quarter of his coaching career. The 62-year-old Knoxville native has had a remarkable run as an assistant for 24 years in the NBA but has never been a head coach. He has come close a few times to realizing that dream...
