Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley   Out of Touch Local Democrat One Democrat candidate for County Mayor, Debbie Helsley, has announced what everybody locally has been waiting for: her solution to climate change.  A press release heralding Helsley’s “Bold Climate Agenda for Knox...

The New Kid on the Block

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. Henry Ford By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a new kid on the block in Knoxville, perhaps unknown to...

The Importance of Earth Day

By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com “They’re not making any more land,” our father would often say. When we were in school, my brother and I hiked up to the ridge near our dairy farm one day to take pictures for a class project. Nowhere was Mother Earth more...

A Special Palm Sunday

By Joe Rector Palm Sunday was a special time for our family. Instead of going to our regular church, we made the trip to First Christian Church at the corner of Fifth and Gay. A holy time became more so as we stood in front of the church. Amy and I began attending FCC...