by Jim Ferguson | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
First, they came for President Trump and since I sometimes disagreed with him, I did nothing. Then they came for Republicans and since I was not a member of that Party I did not object. Then they came for conservative media and I did not speak out. Then they came for...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Tennessee’s football program is floundering. Recruits are de-committing. Assistant coaches are bolting. Their head coach has been in COVID-19 quarantine, not seen in nearly a month. Making matters worse, an internal investigation is underway to determine...
by Tom Mattingly | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly For fans who listened to University of Tennessee football broadcasts on WROL/ WATE/WETE, 620 on every AM radio dial, during the 1950s, 1960s, and even into the 1970s, there was some great locally produced Saturday football programming. Examples...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Major
(Part 6 in series on Dwight Kessel) By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com They met at a pledge dance at The University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. “I spotted a cute little brunette that my fraternity brother knew,” Dwight Kessel said. It was then that he was...
by Joe Rector | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector When I was a small boy, my parents called me into the kitchen one night. They held up a pair of my pajamas; small holes were cut in both the shirt and pants. They asked me what happened to cause those cuts, and I told them that I didn’t know. I was...
by John Duncan | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. Joe Biden will be sworn in as president this week, and I hope for the sake of this country that he does a good job. As I said in my last column, he has been very nice to me every time I have been around him, but I really thought he was not the...
by design | Jan 18, 2021 | Public Notice
Foreclosure NOTICES NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE Sale WHEREAS default has occurred in the payment of a debt due David L. Aiken & wife Judy L. Aiken, secured by a Deed of Trust dated 10/24/19, from Ashley F. Carpenter, and recorded at Inst. #...
by design | Jan 17, 2021 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Local bars face permit suspensions for curfew violations By Ken Lay Two West Knoxville bars now face suspension hearings early next month for multiple citations. Paul’s Oasis, located at 8021 Kingston Pike, and Billiards and Brews, located at Unicorn Drive, will...
by Steve Hunley | Jan 17, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Is it any wonder why the country is so divided, so polarized? And what happened to healing and uniting our country? That seems to have disappeared in a bubble of the purest, most poisonous, palpitating hatred I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. The left...
by design | Jan 17, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Sports referees don’t get much positive publicity. Like Gene Menees of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association recalled recently, “It’s the old adage … You got to start out being perfect when you’re an official and get better from that...
