by design | May 25, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Among Tennessee’s most colorful characters is Harvey Horatio Hannah. Doubtless, few readers today recognize Hannah’s name, but during his lifetime, he was one of Tennessee’s most notable public figures, a man widely renowned for his speaking ability....
by design | May 18, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
Democrats cause problems and Republicans fix them or at least try to. Buck Sexton By Dr. Jim Ferguson It astounds me that people still identify as Democrats and support the party’s crazy policies instead of common sense. Even the few seemingly sensible Democrats like...
by design | May 18, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly When news broke the morning of June 3, 2020, that former Tennessee tailback and head football coach John Majors now belonged to the ages, everyone who knew him weighed in with a number of different perspectives of a Tennessee legend. Majors...
by design | May 17, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Way To Go, Speaker Sexton Last week, Cameron Sexton, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, removed Democrats from their committee and subcommittee assignments following another display of mayhem and disruption as the General Assembly met...
by design | May 17, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill James Davis Porter served two terms as governor of Tennessee and remained one of the most notable of the Volunteer State’s citizens. Lawmaker, judge, chief executive, highly successful businessman and college president, James D. Porter lived a full and...
by design | May 11, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly In nearly 70 years of watching Tennessee football, I have calculated seeing the Vols play in 15 states and 38 stadiums, 34 outdoors and four indoors (the Astrodome, the Carrier Dome, the Louisiana Superdome, and the Georgia Dome). I’ve been around...
