Happy Father’s Day 2022!

By Ralphine Major Summer was his season.  Before heart disease ended his days of dairy farming, our father depended on the summer months to fill the barn with hay to feed livestock for the winter; and in late summer, he would harvest sileage to fill the silo which...

Confronting inflation

By Joe Rector The last piece I wrote discussed price gouging and patriotism. If you’ve paid any attention to the news in the past week, you know that my concerns and pleas fell on deaf ears. A gallon of gas has climbed to $5.00. Remember that means that half is below...

Rooting for the Bad Guys

By Mark Nagi As I write this article, the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team is getting ready to host Notre Dame in the Super Regionals. Win two out of three and UT will advance to the College World Series for the second straight year. No matter what happens against...

Taking the Indian Mountain State Park loop

  By Mike Steely It’s either the first or the last Tennessee State Park you will pass, depending on which direction you are traveling on Interstate 75 entering or leaving Kentucky. Indian Mountain State Park is only about an hour north of Knoxville and is unusual...

Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley More Pain at the Pump Pain at the pump continues as gas continues spiraling ever upward.  The national average is $4.92 per gallon, which is double what it was the day Joe Biden came into office.  Biden and members of his administration lay the blame...