by design | May 12, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Complaining By Joe Rector Well, I’m wondering if the rain will ever stop. I know that in a couple of months, my concern will be over too little rain for plants and lawns to survive. So it goes with the human condition; we are never happy unless we have something about...
by design | May 12, 2025 | Columnist, Williams
A ‘thank you’ from Lizzi to her dad By Steve Williams I had been saving comments from a special interview for the right time. Today I believe is the right time. Lizzi Lowe, daughter of Matt Lowe, a well-known Powell High head football coach in these parts,...
by design | May 12, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Herculean Herman Hickman’ By Tim Mattingly When Tennessee squared off in the Charity Bowl against New York University on Dec. 5, 1931, at Yankee Stadium, it may not have been an officially recognized bowl game (the NCAA doesn’t count this and other...
by design | May 12, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
You Steer Where You Stare By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor “You steer where you stare.” I recently heard this statement from Jimmy Dykes, an ESPN and SEC basketball analyst, while speaking to a group of seniors from Gibbs High School. It...
by design | May 11, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley PBS Has Become Biased President Trump’s executive order cutting the funding received by PBS is long overdue. “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the...
by design | May 11, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Senator From Washington State Hugh B. Mitchell By Ray Hill Hugh Burnton Mitchell was a scholarly man with an earthy streak who had made his way through life as a sports reporter when he found the Great Depression had left him unable to finish his courses at...
