by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Carroll Reece had spent a decade in Congress serving Tennessee’s First Congressional District when he had been upset by Oscar Byrd Lovette, the former district attorney general from Greene County in the 1930 general election. Reece had faced a tough...
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come… Hamlet by William Shakespeare By Dr. Jim Ferguson My grandchildren are out of school for the summer, and despite Covid they passed all their studies....
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black Until a couple of years ago I thought CRT stood for cathode ray tube and BLM stood for Bureau of Land Management. No more. Now its Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter. Elections have consequences. This past one produced a tie in the...
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely East Tennessee has numerous Native American mounds including in and around Knox County but nothing in the state compares to Pinson Mounds in West Tennessee’s Madison County. Pinson Mounds State Archeological Park has the second highest Native American...
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay Knoxville Catholic High School baseball player Emery Wright will continue his academic pursuits and baseball career at Tennessee Tech University. He made it official Wednesday afternoon when he signed his National Letter of Intent to play for the Golden...
