by Mark Nagi | Jul 3, 2017 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman We don’t expect our heroes to be fallible. But unfortunately they are made of the same flesh and bone as the rest of us. Last week marked the one year anniversary of the death of Pat Summitt and Tennessee is not the same without her. I’m not just...
by design | Jul 3, 2017 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I never know what I’m going to write about. I used to fret about my publishing deadline. However, after writing a half million words, I don’t search for storylines anymore, I just wait for stories to find me. And sometimes I don’t know where my...
by Steve Hunley | Jul 2, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley For sometime now the Knox County School Board has been prodded to change existing discipline policies. A group of people claiming to represent “the community” have been pushing hard to make significant changes in policies that are now in place to...
by Ray Hill | Jul 2, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Gordon Browning was a veteran of Tennessee’s turbulent and oftentimes brutal political wars. Browning had unseated a twenty-four year incumbent in his first race for Congress in 1920, although he lost the general election to a Republican. Stubborn to a...
by design | Jun 26, 2017 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I don’t pretend to understand how computers work. Like most of us, I have a vague comprehension of electrons swirling through silicon pathways within the devices we hold in our hands or sit on our desktops. I appreciate quantum mechanics which...
by Mark Nagi | Jun 26, 2017 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Ok… not sure I am used to living in a world in which the University of Tennessee is making smart decisions that also play well in the court of public opinion with regards to athletics. But that’s where we are now. First, new Tennessee athletic director...
