by design | Mar 22, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Repeal The Wheel Tax The Wheel Tax was the brainchild of then-County Mayor Mike Ragsdale and his chief of staff, Mike Arms. We were told by Ragsdale that we would receive some wonderful new benefits, namely a new downtown library. We have the same...
by design | Mar 22, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The route to high public office is different for every person. For Harley Martin Kilgore, it was like a rocket ship to outer space, rising from an obscure local judge of the criminal court to the United States Senate in a matter of months. Few...
by design | Mar 16, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly “Tennessee Football… from corner to corner” was published in the preseason of 1966. Head coach Doug Dickey and captains Austin Denney and Paul Naumoff adorned the magazine’s cover. The cover raised the possibility of a trip to Miami during bowl...
by design | Mar 16, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
More Than A Day Away By Mike Steely Until I was six years old, my mother, sister, brother and I lived with my grandmother in her small country house up a country dirt road near other family members. My grandmother was a small woman with strong control of our...
by design | Mar 16, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. Reagan Carney, a really fine young man with whom we go to church, told me Sunday before last that the UT Young Republicans had a board on which members could express their opinions about the war in Iran. The board had only one question: Is...
by design | Mar 16, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
We didn’t start the fire… Billy Joel By Dr. Jim Ferguson If you ever doubted the existence of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), Democrat strategist James Carville’s unhinged, expletive-filled rant last week proves that TDS exists. In fact, Carville maintains he...
