by Mark Nagi | Feb 17, 2014 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Consistent readers of this column have noticed how much joy I get from local sports talk radio shows. I don’t have official confirmation, but at last count I believe that there are approximately 493 local sports talk radio shows that folks can listen...
by Joe Rector | Feb 17, 2014 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Dal Gene …that’s what everyone called him from birth until sometime after he went away to college. Then he became Dallas or Dal, and the “Gene” disappeared. Even at the young age of seventeen, he was older and much wiser than his years. According to our...
by design | Feb 17, 2014 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore Are you watching the Olympics? I hope so. Those fabulous, sometimes nerve-wracking, yet thrilling games between the most athletic young people in the world–and some not so young are awe-inspiring. Let’s talk about the ice skaters. While some of...
by Steve Hunley | Feb 17, 2014 | Columnist, Hunley
By Steve Hunley Anyone expecting anything new in Superintendent of Schools Jim McIntyre’s annual State of the Schools address had to be terribly disappointed. Recently, there has been an attempt to make McIntyre more human; the fact a public official who has been...
by Ray Hill | Feb 16, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
Estes Kefauver had quite nearly managed the impossible by getting himself elected to the United States Senate in 1948. Kefauver took advantage of E. H. Crump’s mistake in refusing to back Senator Tom Stewart for reelection. The state of the national Democratic Party...
by design | Feb 10, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson The other day my mother-in-law called me to say she’s been thinking about pharmaceutical development. She wondered if this might be a topic for my column. After our conversation I thought, how remarkable is the curiosity of this ninety-seven year...
