by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely The very first story of mine I saw in print outside of my duties as a Coast Guard journalist was printed in an Alexandria, Va., newspaper. I remember visiting the paper back then and seeing the first letterpress printing I ever saw. I prize the line of...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I’ve always been an Elvis fan. Even at the young age of 3, I loved his songs and performed them in front of an audience consisting of extended family members. Although I couldn’t understand many words because he growled and the audience made too much...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It was a new, green highway sign along a beautiful stretch of rural road. I had seen the one posted on Tazewell Pike a few weeks ago shortly after the highway was dedicated, but I had not seen the road marker along East Emory...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly When the University of Tennessee started fall classes in September 1953, there was one very important item on the agenda for student body leaders. It was a movement to select a mascot. Both local newspapers broke the story on Sunday, Sept. 20....
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi The bad times… oh there have been a few. From Lane Kiffin’s midnight run to Derek Dooley’s Orange Pants to Butch Jones’s Champions of Life and to Jeremy Pruitt’s COVID sleeve that covered everything but his eyeballs, Tennessee’s football program has had...
by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Democrats Successes…Republicans Not So Much Local Democrats have sent out an email bragging about the results of the recent election. Among the accomplishments, they boast of are “flipping 7 precincts blue that Trump won in 2020.” The Democrats...
