by Joe Rector | May 14, 2018 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I’ve always said that high school students have remained the same over the years. One of my classes proved me wrong the other day. We were studying humor, and I showed the old routine by Bill Cosby about being a parent. Yes, I know Cosby stands...
by Ralphine Major | May 14, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major May is filled with special days connecting family and friends, such as Mother’s Day, graduations, and Memorial Day. Father’s Day will take us to the week in June that summer officially starts and traditional vacations begin. There are so many ways...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | May 14, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jed McKeehan If you get involved in a legal proceeding your case will be set to be heard by some type of judge. Your case could be before a small claims (general sessions) judge, a circuit judge, a chancellor, a criminal judge, a federal judge, an appellate judge,...
by Steve Hunley | May 13, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Mayor Tim Burchett has always liked the imagery of being the white knight arriving just in the nick of time to save the damsel in distress. It seems to be a scenario Burchett simply cannot resist. The latest episode of the intrepid Burchett’s...
by Ray Hill | May 13, 2018 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Governor Albert H. Roberts, first elected in 1918, was having a difficult time winning reelection in 1920. Tennessee had traditionally given governors a second two-year term, save for the most controversial or incompetent. Roberts had been an able enough...
by design | May 7, 2018 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Medical verbiage can be confusing. I’m told there are 500,000 words in the English language, and then if you add medical, legal and technical language to the base number there may be upwards of a million words in the English lexicon. The purpose of...
