In Focus with Carolyn Hutcheson

”In Focus Political Buzzword” - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 13, 2021

This week when Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares the political forecast with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson, Alabama's Medical Cannabis Commission tops the list.

”In Focus Weekly Newswrap” - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 10, 2021

On this week's Newswrap from In Focus, Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson headlines about a proposed draft bill for the construction of three new prisons in Alabama. And the wildcard is about a bus rider on a mission.

”Freeport Flag Ladies” - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 10, 2020 & Sept. 9, 2021

Elaine Greene, one ot the three Freeport Flag Ladies from Maine, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about their patriotic project to wave flags every Tuesday for eighteen years, in honor of the victims of the World Trade Center attack.  The ladies served military personnel and their families with care packages, visits to greet them at the airport, visits to wounded troops, and attendance at funerals.  Upon their "2019 retirement," due to age and infirmity, Wreaths Across America picked up their cause for 9/11 and the laying of wreaths at cemeteries across the country on  Dec. 19, to honor our fallen heroes.  The Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo will participate on Dec. 19, 2021.  
This program is a re-broadcast from Sept. 10, 2020.

”Alabama Poison Center Fields Ivermectin Calls” - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 8, 2021

Ann Slattery, Director of the Alabama Poison Information Center at Children's of Alabama in Birmingham,, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the calls the center is receiving about Ivermectin being used as a home remedy by people who are avoiding the Covid-19 vaccinations. 

Abandoned Lot Becomes Community Garden - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 7, 2021

Montgomery's nonprofit Old Cloverdale Association turned an abandoned lot into a community garden.  Lois Cortell, garden co-manager, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the six-year urban reclamation project.

”In Focus Political Buzzword” - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 6, 2021

This week when Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares the political forecast with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson, the shortage of hospital workers to take care of Covid patients tops the list.

”In Focus Weekly Newswrap” - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 3, 2021

On this week's Newswrap from In Focus, Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson headlines about the Coronavirus spike in Alabama, with children now being hospitalized for the virus. And the wildcard is about a mysterious duck.

Alabama World Affairs Council President Recalls Time in Afghanistan

With the U.S. pulling out of Afghanistan after twenty years of military involvement,Major General Walter Givhan (U.S. Air Force Ret.) shares with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, his experience commanding the rebuilding of the Afghan Air Force in 2008-2009. General Givhan leads the Alabama World Affairs Council as President and serves Troy University as Senior Vice-Chancellor for Advancement and Economic Development.

Photographing America: John Dersham on In Focus” - TPR‘s In Focus - Sept. 1, 2021

Master photographer John Dersham talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about his sixty years in photography, culminating in his new book, "Changing Moods, Sixty Years in Black and White."

Flag-Waving Tradition to Continue in Alabama, pre 9/11 Anniversary

Karen Worcester is co-founder of Wreaths Across America, a nonprofit that works with Gold Star families to honor the fallen in national and international cemeteries.  She talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about plans to wave the American flag on Tues., Sept. 7, in observance of Sept. 11, 2001, when airline hijackers attacked the United States.  The Freeport Flag Ladies waved the American flag on that fateful Tuesday at passing motorists in Maine and continued the tradition for 18 years, before merging with Wreaths Across America.