by Ralphine Major | Mar 30, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major 2020 is bringing us a different kind of spring. As if cancellation of basketball’s March Madness was not enough disruption, more events are canceled or postponed due to the Coronavirus. For now, no Smokies games or college baseball games are...
by Joe Rector | Mar 30, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I figure many folks are like me; they’ve made it through the first week of “social distancing” and stayed at home. It feels much like those times when snow dumped several inches on us in East Tennessee except the roads are clear and there’s no sledding...
by design | Mar 30, 2020 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore In this turbulent world of today, there are many things that make us smile or feel good. Some facts of life are too ridiculous or too factitious to even think about, so where can we go to turn our thoughts inward to happy facts or times. We can...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 30, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan When involved in an accident where you may be seeking compensation from someone for your injuries, there is usually an insurance company that gets involved. The insurance company is the entity that might be paying you for the injuries you received...
by Ray Hill | Mar 29, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Benton McMillin was such a fixture in Tennessee politics he was regarded as the “Old Warhorse” of the Democratic Party in the state. After spending twenty years in Congress from Tennessee’s Fourth District, Benton McMillin twice served as governor of...
by design | Mar 23, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m fascinated by the ever-changing English lexicon, defined as the vocabulary or corpus of a language. I’ve written about words, our tools of expression. I’ve described being “woke,” exercising “intersectionality” and the definition of “leftism.”...
