by Jim Ferguson | Mar 15, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
Fools don’t change, don’t take correction, don’t take responsibility, and don’t adjust to truth. Instead they skew the facts and rewrite history to justify their behavior.’ Henry Cloud By Dr. Jim Ferguson The insanity worsens every day. Surrealism is an art movement...
by Mike Steely | Mar 15, 2021 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely Our region has seen a multitude of military forts built here and there, from early settlement through the Civil War. Some have been restored, like Fort Southwest Point in Kingston and Fort Loudoun near Vonore, but some have been all but forgotten....
by Steve Hunley | Mar 14, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Local Democrats were quick to squall over the election of Daniel Herrera as chairman of the Knox County Republican Party. When was the last time the Knox County Democratic Party elected a young Hispanic as the local leader of their own party? It was...
by Ray Hill | Mar 14, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
“Live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” Sign that hung in the business office of Jim Cummings. By Ray Hill James H. Cummings is likely a name unfamiliar to most readers, but during his time he was a power and a man to be reckoned with. When he...
by Jim Ferguson | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the...
by Joe Rector | Mar 8, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Give a retired man and his wife enough time at home, and the chores will start piling up. Mix in a bit of winter-time boredom for good measure, and a man might be excited to do something that otherwise would be a real pain. This past week, I spent hours...
