by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Bill Howard The monthly meeting of the Concord Farragut Club at Fruition Cafe last Thursday night had an interesting trilogy of speakers. Charme Allen spoke first. Allen, the District Attorney General for Knox County, gave the crowd a general overview of her...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Hazen Kreis is likely a name unfamiliar to the readers of this column, but there was a time when the six foot, five inch gentleman was wildly popular in Knox County. Kreis was elected to three two-year terms consecutively as Sheriff of Knox...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com This past Wednesday, the recently retired head of U.S. immigration said we are now paying $5,000,000 a day for a company to not build a wall on our southern border. There are things that have happened over the last...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” — Plato By Dr. Jim Ferguson The disadvantage of writing a weekly column is that it’s difficult to be contemporaneous. Actually, I like being...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com Politicians always make the appropriate clucking sounds when they are pandering to seniors. They will defend the Ponzi scheme that is Social Security to the death and oppose any change to the bankrupt system no matter how...
by design | Oct 10, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Jedidiah McKeehan A medical power of attorney is a term that gets thrown around occasionally regarding estate planning. However, what is a medical power of attorney? First, let us discuss what a power of attorney is. A power of attorney is a document you sign in...
