by design | Jun 15, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher Tim and Jim reach budget compromise. Last Monday, Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and Knox County Schools Director Jim McIntyre held a joint press conference to present a budget compromise that they say would allow for the construction of both the...
by Joe Rector | Jun 15, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector This world isn’t much like the one I grew up in. Oh, I know technology has made advancements that make our lives much easier. Folks now have much more time to pursue interests and hobbies. Those aren’t the things I’m talking about. What amazes me is the...
by Mark Nagi | Jun 15, 2015 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman I give up. Seriously. I give up. From this point forward I refuse to believe that Tennessee’s athletic department will ever be back to normal. Much like my refusal to pick the Vols to beat Florida in football, I will no longer believe that Tennessee...
by Steve Williams | Jun 15, 2015 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Just what we didn’t need. Another dark cloud over the University of Tennessee men’s basketball program. Allegations of serious academic wrongdoing in the Texas program when new Vols head coach Rick Barnes was employed there were reported last week....
by Ralphine Major | Jun 15, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is often said that mothers are the fabric that hold our homes together. That certainly seems the case in the Julian household. Not only is Hannah Renee a sister to her siblings, she became the mother figure to them also when they came to live in...
by design | Jun 15, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “No man is an island, entire of itself; everyman is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… Any man’s death diminishes me…” John Donne penned these immortal words in 1624 as he reflected on his near death experience from what he and others...
