by Ray Hill | Apr 24, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Willis Robertson has been gone for almost forty-five years, but for decades he was an important figure in Congress and a member of perhaps the most genteel political machine in the country. Today, if he is remembered at all, it is because he was the father...
by Ray Hill | Apr 17, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Wyoming today is dominated by Republicans, but during the height of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, perhaps the most popular politician in the state was a Democrat: Joseph Christopher O’Mahoney. Like the state he represented in the United States Senate,...
by Ray Hill | Apr 10, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill It is quite likely there is hardly anyone who grew up in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s who cannot fondly recall the adventures of a particular collie named Lassie. Most of us marveled at Lassie’s intelligence and bravery and her unending devotion to...
by Ray Hill | Apr 3, 2016 | Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Few men have been as colorful as John Nance Garner of Texas. Garner spent thirty-eight years in Washington, D. C., and the last eight as vice president under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet, Garner shunned the limelight, preferring to make his considerable...
by Ray Hill | Mar 27, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee, like every other state in the union, had been devastated by the Great Depression. The suffering in Tennessee was accentuated by the fact almost seven million dollars in state money had been lost when Caldwell and Company, one of the largest...
by Ray Hill | Mar 13, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Stephen M. Young was an unlikely person to become a successful politician, yet he spent a lifetime pursuing high public office. Highly irascible, a devout liberal, and utterly unwilling to suffer fools, Young never bothered to appease upset constituents....
