by design | Jun 21, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Traveling to various venues with the Tennessee Volunteers is very enjoyable, and there are some intriguing stories, many of which can be told in the pages of a family newspaper. Lindsey Nelson has reported that, while in California for the 1940 Rose...
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley I’m not sure how many others in our community have noticed it, but Knoxville is becoming a microcosm of what is happening nationally. The trifecta of leftist politicians, the mainstream media and Big Tech conspire to stifle free speech and silence...
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. Those who watch only the very biased, distorted propaganda from CNN and MSNBC probably did not see the photos of Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats at a party at the White House not wearing masks and not practicing social distancing....
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Carroll Reece had spent a decade in Congress serving Tennessee’s First Congressional District when he had been upset by Oscar Byrd Lovette, the former district attorney general from Greene County in the 1930 general election. Reece had faced a tough...
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come… Hamlet by William Shakespeare By Dr. Jim Ferguson My grandchildren are out of school for the summer, and despite Covid they passed all their studies....
by design | Jun 20, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black Until a couple of years ago I thought CRT stood for cathode ray tube and BLM stood for Bureau of Land Management. No more. Now its Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter. Elections have consequences. This past one produced a tie in the...