by design | Aug 18, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
New School Year Excitement By Joe Rector Life settled back to a normal state this past week. Children returned to school, some excited for a new adventure and some dreading the demands of classes. Either way, thirteen years of schooling are inevitable for most young...
by design | Aug 18, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Get a quarterback’ By Tom Mattingly When Tennessee was building a new press box in 1962, Gen. Bob Neyland laid down a challenge to media covering the Vols. “We’re going to build the best press box in the country,” he said. “We hope it will improve the writing...
by design | Aug 17, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Leftists Have No Desire To Punish Crime Or Criminals By Steve Hunley The hand-wringing about the horrific crimes in our nation’s capital needs and deserves attention from its local leaders. Instead, it got a group of woke morons who are doing their best to run it...
by design | Aug 17, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Our Congressman Richard W. Austin By Ray Hill For a decade, the congressman from Tennessee’s Second Congressional District was Richard W. Austin. Lean of frame, clean-shaven with piercing eyes and a bald pate, R. W. Austin counted his friends by the thousands. ...
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The times they were a-changin’ in college football By Tom Mattingly It’s hard to believe that decisions made in the 1960s by coaches and players could have such far-reaching impacts. There had been a fallow period in Tennessee football from 1958 to 1963, when the...
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
When Mercy Writes Your Story By Justin Pratt Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor I was only a 4th or 5th grader when a group of boys and I thought it would be funny to throw paint we had found onto the side of Alice Bell Elementary School in the early 1990s. I...
