by design | Sep 8, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson People ask me where I get my stories. I used to say stories just walked into my office, but these days I care for fewer patients in my small concierge medical practice, and I don’t have an office. Consequently, more stories come from medical...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 8, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com His formal name was Cloyd Booker Chesney, but he was known as C. B. to most. He grew up in Corryton, graduated from Gibbs High School and Carson-Newman, and began a long and exemplary career in education. Karns was the place where...
by design | Sep 8, 2015 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore In this day and age it seems as if everyone in the world is busy taking pictures, of everyone, of themselves. Well, why not, it’s so easy to do, just hold your phone and click. But the pictures we are taking today do not compare with the ones that were...
by Joe Rector | Sep 8, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The world faces continuing problems: assaults by extremists groups who seek to destroy anything or anyone that opposes them, threats of war from countries with chips on their shoulders, and natural disasters that leave millions homeless and helpless....
by design | Sep 7, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com The Board of Education conducted its annual “reorganization” at the September regular Board meeting last week. Gloria Deathridge nominated Doug Harris (who announced publicly at Monday’s work session he was “throwing his name...
by Ray Hill | Sep 7, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill By 1929, Luke Lea had reached the apex of his political influence in Tennessee. Lea was the undisputed power behind the throne and no one had more influence in the administration of Governor Henry Horton. When Tennessee’s junior United States senator,...
