by design | Mar 6, 2017 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore All through my life I heard the expression, “you’re never too old to learn.” And that’s so very true. I am so pleased to be able to learn something new on many occasions, something that I never heard of before or knew about. I learned this interesting...
by Steve Hunley | Mar 5, 2017 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Diesel fuel tax would increase 70% By Steve Hunley As you’ve read here many times, the Knoxville News Sentinel is utterly predictable. The News Sentinel has never seen a new tax or an existing tax increase that they didn’t like. So, the Sentinel surprised no one when...
by Ray Hill | Mar 5, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By 1939 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was fast approaching perhaps the biggest crisis of his presidency, aside from the Great Depression, with war looming in Europe. Roosevelt turned to his Secretary of State, Cordell Hull of Tennessee. Tall, stately, dignified and...
by Mike Steely | Feb 27, 2017 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely It sits by itself in a lonely spot in Oak Ridge, a symbol of peace between Japan and the United States and a reminder of Pearl Harbor and the dropping of atomic bombs that ended World War II. The Friendship Bell seems like a contradiction between the...
by Joe Rector | Feb 27, 2017 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The holiday season took a toll on me. I’ve never been good at refusing sweets and other items that appear on kitchen the table. Holiday meals are times when I overeat, and not doing so is hard when everything smells and tastes so much better than at...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 27, 2017 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Perhaps in the early 1900s it was a common sight. Today, it is historical. I marvel not only at the scene, but more so that anyone even had a camera and would have the presence of mind to capture on film the threshing machine event. The late...
