by Ray Hill | Feb 11, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee Senator Bill Frist was not the first physician to serve in the United States Senate; almost sixty years before Dr. Frist took the oath of office, a physician left the Senate through death. Royal S. Copeland was an unusual person and for that matter, an...
by design | Feb 5, 2018 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore He was born on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia, to a teenage orphan making her living as a sharecropper. Later his father abandoned them. He started to lose his sight around the age of four or five and became completely blind at the age of seven....
by Ralphine Major | Feb 5, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com She may have been best known as a fourth grade teacher at Gibbs Elementary School. I knew who she was because our father had her as a teacher. Brunetta Sharp graduated from Gibbs High School and The University of Tennessee and...
by Joe Rector | Feb 5, 2018 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I arrived at one high school in Knox County to substitute not long ago. When I arrived, the lady in charge told me that I would fill in for a different teacher for each afternoon class. It seems as though teachers are dropping like flies; 25 were out on...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Feb 5, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan There may come a point in your life when a lawsuit is filed against you and you decide that you need to hire an attorney to represent you in court. Or you may have filed a lawsuit on your own in general sessions (small claims) court and then...
by design | Feb 5, 2018 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson By the time you read this, it will be February. This year Groundhog Day will be on Friday February 2nd. Legend holds that if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, we’ll have six more weeks of winter. Hopefully, it’ll be cloudy over Punxsutawney,...
