by design | May 22, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com The fact that there is only one charter school in Knox County is not surprising because the system is set up to minimize the number of charters. The applications must be voted on by the local board...
by design | May 15, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com There are those who simply on reflex yell for the federal government to balance the budget. They say that households have to balance budgets (they don’t really) so the government should balance its...
by design | May 8, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Excellence in higher education is hard to define. How can you tell if a professor is doing a good job? I’ve always said that so long as my students didn’t run from the room with their hands over their...
by design | May 1, 2023 | Black, Columnist
The recurring debt ceiling ‘crisis’ By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com We have again reached another so-called budgetary crisis where the Federal debt ceiling must rise or else risk the possibility of the government defaulting on its debt...
by design | Apr 24, 2023 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Remember the joke about the guy tasting Bud Light for the first time and thought it tasted funny and sent it to a lab? The report said, “I am afraid your horse has diabetes.” Well, now Bud Light – the fake...
by design | Apr 17, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Pothole Pete, the Green New Deal and Air Safety By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I’ve written often on being governed by incompetents. The current example is the failure of bank regulators to enforce banking regulations. Another obvious...
