by design | Sep 20, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com Knox County Board of Education Members gathered at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens Welcome Center on Friday for their annual retreat, facilitated by Kathy Hamilton, Chief Operating Officer of HealthCare 21 Business Coalition....
by Ray Hill | Sep 20, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill As with most everything in Tennessee, Senator Kenneth D. McKellar felt a proprietary interest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. McKellar had been instrumental in helping along the park, sponsoring legislation with Senator Claude A. Swanson...
by design | Sep 14, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Have we forgotten? Maybe we just don’t care anymore. Perhaps we’ve been led to such a degree of segregation that our politics not only shape our optics, but our reality. I know where I was on 9-11-2001. Do you? Every one of the Greatest Generation...
by Joe Rector | Sep 14, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I discovered that we no longer have to wait for our drinks to chill before consuming them. Someone with too little to do in life insists that all of our favorite liquids can be instantly icy by spraying them with compressed air. Remember when we had to...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 14, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com I can see a little blond-headed boy standing in the back yard calling for his neighbor to come out and play. It was the sixties, and life was so simple in our rural community. Several times each summer, my brother and I would...
by design | Sep 14, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher More Districts Drop K-2 Standardized Tests Teachers are continuing to speak out against the ever increasing number of standardized tests that students as young as Kindergarten are required to take in public schools. Former KCS kindergarten teacher...
