by Ralphine Major | Jan 29, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major In 1972, I am not sure I had even heard of a meteorologist, though we did have weather forecasters on the evening news. For snow predictions, Gibbs High School students could count on someone else. We had Mr. Drafts! Joe Drafts was the World...
by Joe Rector | Jan 29, 2018 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, appeared on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert recently. Tyson is a favorite of many folks. In fact, the man has 2.4 million followers on social media. Although I am many times fascinated with the information he...
by design | Jan 29, 2018 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Lately, I’ve become somewhat of a bird watcher. Perhaps this is because I’ve discovered it to be a contemplative exercise. I’ve always been an observer of nature, probably for the same reason I’m an internist. Details are important in internal...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 29, 2018 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman On Sunday the New England Patriots will play the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII (that’s Super Bowl 52 for you non-Romans out there). You may or may not know much about the NFL, but you don’t want to be the guy that says “Hey is that Tom Brady?”...
by Steve Williams | Jan 29, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams It’s been over 40 years, but longtime Austin-East fans haven’t forgotten the glory years of Roadrunner basketball. The school gave Knox County its first state championship in the TSSAA’s classification era when Elston Turner led A-E to the Class AAA...
by Steve Hunley | Jan 28, 2018 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The willingness of the Democrats in the U. S. Senate to shutdown the government in an effort to force Republicans to grant amnesty to DACA recipients should come as no surprise to any thinking person. The DACA law, enacted not by the Congress,...
