by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan To this day, if someone asks me what the hardest thing I have ever done in my life is, I answer that it was taking and passing the Bar exam to become a lawyer. So how do you get to the point where you are taking the Bar exam anyway? So, if someone...
by design | Mar 25, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson One of my axioms is, “I don’t find stories/essays; they find me.” “The Doctor is in…” is an opinion column, but recently a self-avowed atheist took umbrage at my religion, my opinions and my observations. Public speaking and writing take courage...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 24, 2019 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Do you recall when quite a few Democrats snorted $6 billion for building a border wall was too expensive? Now Democrats, especially those busy running for president, are backing programs spending trillions of our tax dollars. The first thing that comes to...
by Ray Hill | Mar 24, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill John Knight Shields, Tennessee’s senior United States senator, had first been elected in 1913. Shields had served for a decade on the Tennessee Supreme Court before becoming the last man to be elected to the U. S. Senate by the state legislature. Shields...
by Mike Steely | Mar 18, 2019 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely You may know it as Sharps Chapel or simply the peninsula, but that huge swatch of state forest just north of Maynardville is actually the Chuck Swan Wildlife Management Area. While it is mostly abandoned now, at one time many families lived, worshiped...
by design | Mar 18, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson It had been years since I was in the sanctuary of my youth. The occasion was a celebration of the life of a great lady, now “passed on.” I like the term passed on better than “passed away.” For me, the former better conveys the sense of continuity...
