by design | Jun 7, 2021 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams The Spring Fling has come and gone … Football, anyone? Well, after today (June 7), it’s only 72 days to the opening kickoff for the 2021 high school season. Yep, just 11 Friday nights away from those Week 1 games. Opening night, however, won’t be on...
by design | Jun 7, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly The calendar tells us that the 2021 University of Tennessee season-opening football game against Bowling Green is just around the comer. Here are several of the memorable first games. Sept. 24, 1921, Tennessee 27, Emory & Henry 0, Shields-Watkins...
by design | Jun 6, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Taxpayers owe a debt of thanks to Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs for sending a letter to Susan Horn, Chair of the Board of Education and taking a bold stand against waste and for student safety. The topic of the mayor’s letter was to “tell the...
by design | Jun 6, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. One thing I saw thousands of times during my years in office was that you could never satisfy government’s appetite for money and land. They always wanted more. Yet the least economical, least efficient way to spend any money was to turn it over...
by design | Jun 6, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill On January 9, 1932, twelve hundred Republicans from Tennessee’s First Congressional District had converged upon the Hamblen County courthouse in Morristown to demand former congressman Brazilla Carroll Reece once again run for Congress. Reece had...
by design | Jun 6, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell By Dr. Jim Ferguson Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my persona. Though the definition may encompass fictional literary characters, I’m including the...
