by Steve Williams | Jun 26, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Discussion of Tennessee ending its traditional football series against Alabama continues to pop up from time to time and as long as the Vols keep losing to the Crimson Tide, we’ll hear about it more often. I understand the unfairness in the...
by Mike Steely | Jun 26, 2017 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely One of the greatest court trials in America is being re-enacted as part of the Scopes Festival in Dayton in July. The 1925 trial, where a local teacher was charged of illegally teaching evolution, will be presented on various days from July 14th to July...
by Joe Rector | Jun 26, 2017 | Columnist, Rector
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps raising its hull; The wetter ground like glass Reflects a standing...
by Steve Hunley | Jun 25, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced the Department of Justice will no longer engage in the practice of “third party settlements.” This was a common practice by the Department of Justice when Eric Holder was the Attorney General under the...
by Ray Hill | Jun 25, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill to 1915, United States senators from Tennessee had been elected by the state legislature. That same year Democrats were anticipating a primary, a year in advance of the 1916 general election. The primary would include a run-off election between the two...
by Ralphine Major | Jun 25, 2017 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major Their names are familiar. I saw Doctor and Macel mentioned in the late Woodrow Luttrell’s memories of the “Back When” series recently published in the Focus. Macel was Woodrow’s sister. I cannot recall a time when I did not know the names “Doctor...
