by design | Jan 2, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly The Vols started the 1974 season 2-3-1. “The 2-3-1 record,” wrote the Knoxville Journal’s Russ Bebb, “brought gloom so thick you could cut it with a knife.” Losses came at Auburn (21-0), at LSU (20-10), and at home against Alabama (28-6). Tennessee...
by design | Jan 2, 2022 | Columnist, Steely, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Mike Steely I’m old enough and have been reporting long enough to have interviewed Colonel Harland Sanders and lived, as a child, close enough to his original Sander’s Cafe to know his story. Schooled in Kentucky for 10 years, how could I not know about Col....
by design | Dec 27, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It was in early December the year I met him. Jimmy Duncan called to see if I would come to downtown Knoxville and meet Zane Daniel. The two lawyers had established Daniel & Duncan law firm and wanted to talk to me about working for them. I...
by design | Dec 27, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector joerector@comcast.net I know why I began to write all those years ago. Even as a young boy, the mood and feeling the need to write things down would come, and I climbed the steps to the upstairs bedroom, a place that was hotter than a mill in the summer...
by design | Dec 27, 2021 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely You’ve probably driven Interstate 75 north across the mountains into Kentucky. It’s a beautiful drive but busy with trucks and cars. There’s another way to cross the state line along Highway 25W from Caryville to Jellico and on into the Blue...
by design | Dec 26, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Redistricting 2022 One of the big developments recently was the announcement the Tennessee General Assembly’s redistricting committee has already approved a redistricting plan. The plan makes some interesting changes in the legislative map, including...
