by Joe Rector | Dec 5, 2016 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector For most of my adult life, friends and acquaintances have at some point asked me where I’ve lived. When I reply, “Knoxville, except for the years I lived in Cookeville for college,” they wonder aloud why I never ventured out. The reasons are many. When I...
by design | Dec 5, 2016 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore For love and understanding? It behooves me to sadly see the hate and despair between people at especially this blessed time of the year, when we pause to celebrate Christ’s birthday. It is time to put away grudges and anger and think about forgetting...
by design | Dec 5, 2016 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson The Trump derangement syndrome continues to rage as Democrats search for someone or something to blame for their shellacking. Actually, it was the Democrat Party’s decision in 2011 to abandon their blue collar base, for instance in the rust belt,...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 5, 2016 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan A large portion of Tennesseans do not have a will that dictates who gets what when they die, they simply have not gone to the trouble of ever making a will. When this happens, the state’s laws of intestate succession, aka who gets what when there...
by Steve Hunley | Dec 4, 2016 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The problem of drug addiction in America is complex, troubling and growing at an alarming rate. Yet I wonder if our country has really made the effort to properly regulate opioid painkillers. Clearly if Walmart can instantly know how and when to...
by Ray Hill | Dec 4, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For much of 1979, Howard Baker was preoccupied with the business of running for president. Senator Baker arrived at the Lyons Township Republican annual steak fry and the temperature was still a broiling 90 degrees as the sun went down. Worse still, the...
