by Steve Hunley | Oct 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Lord have mercy! Mayoral candidate Indya Kincannon has just let go of a press release announcing, if elected, she will create an Office of Innovation. Don’t you reckon it’s finally time somebody thought of that? I suppose it would not be nice to point...
by Ray Hill | Oct 27, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill It was hardly surprising Joseph W. Byrns, Jr. had been elected to Congress from Tennessee’s “Hermitage District”, site of General Andrew Jackson’s plantation home. The district had been represented for twenty-eight years by Joseph W. Byrns, father of the...
by design | Oct 21, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson On Columbus Day, I read a story about the intrepid Captain who, “in 1492, sailed the ocean blue.” (I suspect this was the first historical date I memorized.) But there is more to his story. Before Columbus sailed westward he spent more than a...
by Joe Rector | Oct 21, 2019 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I admit it. I’m addicted to coverage of the political drama that is playing out on the cable networks. No, I’m not a fan of the president, but rest assured that neither am I a fan of those Democrats like Warren and Sanders. I’m more of a...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Oct 21, 2019 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan You may be watching the news, or reading an article online about a high-profile criminal case and the criminal defendant is found guilty and sentenced to a long prison sentence. What the articles and stories usually do not discuss is how much of...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 21, 2019 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com Perhaps it is this time of year—in the fall—that has caused me to look back at some old photos. Or, perhaps it was my brother’s recent birthday celebration that reminded me of earlier times. It could be because this...
