by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 27, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan When someone comes to see me who has been sued, they will often tell me about the terrible things that the other side has done to them. When they are telling me these things, I will consider whether the person has grounds for a Counter-Complaint,...
by Ralphine Major | Apr 27, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is the only picture of me wearing cap and gown for high school graduation. I had forgotten that then Gibbs High School assistant principal Roy Mullins handed out our diplomas because our principal, Max Clendenen, had suffered...
by Mark Nagi | Apr 27, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi It’s no secret that COVID-19 has had a huge effect on the daily lives of all Americans. The way we shop, the way we travel, the way we work… nothing is normal these days. It got me thinking about what this ordeal has meant to high school...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 26, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
School System Must Begin to Prepare Now By Steve Hunley Bob Thomas, superintendent of the Knox County School system, was recently interviewed by another media outlet and stated plainly, “We weren’t prepared” for the coronavirus. Nobody was, nor could they be. As I...
by Ray Hill | Apr 26, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Senator Luke Lea was so unpopular with his fellow Democrats, the party machinery moved up the election for the Democratic nomination to November of 1915, a full year in advance of the regular general election in 1916. For the first and only time, the...
by design | Apr 20, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson A common idiom holds that there are two sides of a coin. The interpretation of this saying, or dichotomy, is a contrast between oppositional perspectives. Philosophically, I’ve always held that with any concept you can conceive of its opposite....
