by design | Apr 20, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I love rainy spring days, and still whisper the childhood rhyme, “April showers bring May flowers.” Of course if you’re having a picnic or a garden wedding you’d wish for a sunny day, but without rain and water, life as we understand it...
by Mark Nagi | Apr 20, 2015 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman If you spend any time listening to local sports talk radio you know that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of people out there that could do a better job than Butch Jones and members of his coaching staff at Tennessee. We know this because the moment...
by Steve Williams | Apr 20, 2015 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Dave Hart has a problem. But Dave Serrano has a bigger problem. Serrano, in his fourth season as baseball coach at Tennessee, is in danger of seeing his ball club fail to make SEC tournament for the third time. Last year, Serrano’s Vols barely made...
by Steve Hunley | Apr 19, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley School Board members deserve credit for approving Gibbs Middle There’s an old adage many of us learned from our grandparents: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.” Last Monday night at the Knox County Board of Education’s special-called...
by Ray Hill | Apr 19, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Albert Benjamin Chandler had once again defeated the state machine and won election to the governorship by a record majority twenty years after having first been elected governor. Unfortunately, Happy Chandler’s second administration was not going...
by design | Apr 13, 2015 | Archives, Columnist
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law Society tries to deter crime by devising a variety of punishments for individuals who commit those crimes. These range from the assessment of fines and probation to incarceration and even the death penalty. I want to focus here...
