The Most Important Day in History

By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is the time of year when that special morning welcomes children with baskets full of chocolate bunnies and colored eggs.  It is the time of year when beautiful white lilies adorn church sanctuaries.  It is the time of year when...

‘I’ll always respect him more as a man’

By Tom Mattingly A few years ago, I received an e-mail from Chris Burrows, who identified himself as the Baptist Student Union Director at Itawamba Community College in Mississippi. It was one of a number of missives I receive on a daily basis. He had spent more than...

Halls High’s Reeves has a little of Tiger in her

By Steve Williams As the golf world and sports fans in general watched Tiger Woods at the Masters last week to see how well he could do in his comeback attempt from a serious car accident 14 months ago, there are countless athletes who face adversity with courage and...

Looking back at the Vols basketball season

  By Mark Nagi College basketball is a tournament sport.  Which, of course, can lead to some of the most exciting moments on the athletic calendar. But it also gives us immediate endings, sooner than would come if there wasn’t a lose and go home finish for all...

Publisher’s Positions

By Steve Hunley Liberals Sue to Block Wright-Niceley Bill To the surprise of no one, the Wright-Niceley Bill, which establishes residency requirements for candidates for federal office is Tennessee, has been challenged in a new lawsuit.  As noted by the Tennessee...