by design | Apr 29, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Still Alive By Joe Rector This past weekend, I was thrilled to find out that my neighbors weren’t dead. I mean nearly all of them. They disappeared at the end of October 2023. So few sightings of them had me wondering if they’d moved or died. Not until last Saturday...
by design | Apr 29, 2024 | Columnist, Ferguson
Delusional Thinking When debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of losers. Socrates By Dr. Jim Ferguson Becky and I enjoy watching sports, but I focus on the sport that is “in season.” I’ll watch some of the National Hockey League playoffs...
by design | Apr 28, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley The Wrecking Crew… Rule Or Ruin I have always admired Newt Gingrich and recall the “revolution” that saw Republicans win the House of Representatives in 1994. The first thing that the new Republican majority did was to...
by design | Apr 28, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tarheel Statesman: Cameron Morrison of North Carolina By Ray Hill Since 1900, only three men have served as a congressman, governor and United States senator from North Carolina: Cameron Morrison, Clyde Hoey and William B. Umstead. Only Clyde Hoey was elected to all...
by design | Apr 22, 2024 | Black, Columnist
What checks and balances? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com When I was in school, I was taught that the United States had a system of checks and balances where no one branch of the government could devolve into tyranny given the oversight...
by design | Apr 22, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Sometimes Winners Become Losers Or Losers Become Winners By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com “If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.” So said President...
