by design | Sep 14, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Woke Evil In Charlotte For the better part of the last 20 years, Knoxvillians have heard of the wonders of Charlotte, North Carolina. Mecklenburg County has been held up as a beacon of enlightenment and progress to Knoxville and...
by design | Sep 14, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Costigan of Colorado Edward P. Costigan By Ray Hill The most widely read news magazine in the world, TIME, aptly noted, “One way to spoil a party of which you disapprove is to leave it, making a disturbance as you go.” That was the description TIME used to report the...
by design | Sep 8, 2025 | Columnist, Nagi
Schadenfreude on full display By Mark Nagi Saturday, August 30, 2025, was one of the great days in Tennessee football history. I mean, it’s not like January 1, 1986, when the Vols beat Miami 35-7 at the Sugar Bowl. It’s not like January 4, 1999, when the Vols beat...
by design | Sep 8, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The first 11-win season since 1970 By Tom Mattingly The 1989 Tennessee football season finished 11-1, capped by a 31-27 win over Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl. That was quite a treat for Vol fans, given that the Vols had compiled a 5-6 record the year before. That...
by design | Sep 8, 2025 | Columnist, Steely
Cumberland Falls is NOT in Williamsburg A Day Away By Mike Steely I keep seeing a local television commercial for Williamsburg, Kentucky. As I grew up there for ten years and even briefly returned later in life to live there again, I consider it one of my hometowns....
by design | Sep 8, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Musings on Vacation By Joe Rector The past week, Amy and I returned to our favorite vacation spot, Isle of Palms, South Carolina. We’ve traveled over the mountains to reach this spot for several years and have found the best time to visit is the week after Labor Day....
