by Jedidiah McKeehan | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Jedidiah McKeehan One term that you may have heard an attorney use is the term, “pleading.” What in the world is a pleading? Is a pleading a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Is it public record? Is it some secret document? If I take off my lawyer hat and think about...
by Mike Steely | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely If you’re headed east on Interstate 40 beyond Asheville, North Carolina there’s one little town right off the interstate you should take the time to stop and visit. Old Fort is aptly named. It began when George Davidson settled there and...
by Jim Ferguson | Apr 26, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
There will come soft rains and the smell of ground, and swallows circling with their shimmering sound… Sara Teasdale By Dr. Jim Ferguson These days I often find myself button challenged. Last week’s column header was a quote from the opening lines of “A Tale of Two...
by John Duncan | Apr 26, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. I have just finished reading a great book called “When Cuba Conquered Kentucky,” which the cover describes as “the triumphant basketball story of a tiny high school that achieved the American Dream.” The book was recommended and loaned to me by...
by Harold Black | Apr 26, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold Black My musings typically generate comments. In twelve years the most negative comments I received were over the letter “b”. A copy editor had capitalized all the “bs” in black – where it designated race – and not the “w” for white. I was asked why I...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 26, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Even as a lawyer, I find amusing the lists you come across on the internet occasionally that list funny and random laws. Who knew that it was illegal to shoot deer while riding a tractor in Nebraska (I just made this one up)? I recently came...
