by Steve Williams | Oct 9, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams The University of Tennessee football program has come off the track. The 41-0 loss to Georgia in a dressed up Neyland Stadium was just the latest shake and rattle before the derailment. The Volunteer express under Butch Jones has been swerving for...
by design | Oct 9, 2017 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes the best explanation for the otherwise inexplicable is evil. But then you’d have to believe that there is such a thing as evil. Is there a force in the world that opposes good? For most of man’s history the notion that there were opposing...
by Ray Hill | Oct 8, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Colonel Luke Lea, away in Europe during the First World War, had never gotten along with John Knight Shields when they were colleagues in the United States Senate. Lea’s newspaper, the Nashville Tennessean sided with Shields’ opponent, Governor Tom Rye in...
by Mike Steely | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely Want a visit to the past? Interested in ghost towns or almost ghost towns? Probably no place in our region is more typical of small, 1880s era towns than Bulls Gap in southern Hawkins County. Located between Morristown and Greeneville the little town...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidah McKeehan We’ve all seen the movie where a suspect is being questioned about their criminal history and they are reminded of how they were involved in an armed robbery many years ago. The suspect always responds by saying that he was driving a car and his...
by design | Oct 2, 2017 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore I am sure many of my readers have read these thoughts before but I think they bear repeating. “One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed...
