by Ray Hill | Sep 11, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Congressman Albert Gore, forty-four years old in 1952, was poised to challenge Tennessee’s most formidable vote getter, Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, in the Democratic primary. McKellar, eighty-three years old and ailing, remained an imposing candidate...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Sep 6, 2016 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan When people get arrested, the first thing that comes to mind is, “Oh no, I’m going to jail and who knows how long I’ll have to stay.” But what they often forget about is the enormous cost that can be associated just with getting arrested and...
by Joe Rector | Sep 6, 2016 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I began a new job as a substitute teacher at the beginning of the school year. The first couple of days were rough as I reacquainted myself with teenaged students. I’d spent 30 years as a teacher but had been gone from the school setting and the...
by Ralphine Major | Sep 6, 2016 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It was 1947 when an 18-year-old student graduated from Halls High School in Halls Crossroads, Tennessee. He found his first job in downtown Knoxville at the Standard Knitting Mills. Eugene (Gene) Harrington would spend the next 42 years at “The...
by Mark Nagi | Sep 6, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Well, that didn’t go as expected. The ninth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers were supposed to open the 2016 season at Neyland Stadium with a convincing win over an Appalachian State team that, on paper, doesn’t have nearly the talent level as the Vols....
by Steve Williams | Sep 6, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Be honest Tennessee football fans. When you woke up Friday morning, did you feel good about how your Vols played in their season opener the night before? Coach Butch Jones told us “1-0 is 1-0” on his post-game show after the come-from-behind 20-13...
