by Ralphine Major | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major I never knew her except through pictures and stories from our mother. Mandy Smith Torbett was our maternal grandmother. Originally from Anderson County, Tennessee, she moved to Knoxville when she and our grandfather, Tecil C. Torbett from...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | May 9, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Jedidiah McKeehan On one of my very first days working in the legal world I remember seeing a paralegal prepare a new lawsuit to be filed at the Court. Out of curiosity I picked it up and started flipping through it and I asked her, “why do you have three copies?”...
by Joe Rector | May 3, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Are you tired of hearing how terrible 2020 was with the appearance of COVID-19? I might agree with folks if we hadn’t already had 3.2 million cases and 573,000 deaths—so far. For those who have suffered through the disease or who have lost loved ones and...
by Mark Nagi | May 3, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi There are times that the days drag, and others that they fly by. Either way, our local high school football teams can’t wait for the opening games of the 2021 season get here. The good news (or bad news for those impatient folks) is that the kickoff to...
by Steve Hunley | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley More Protest Follies Readers will recall the antics of Constance Every and her merry band of protesters who tried to disrupt a recent meeting of the Knox County Commission and were promptly arrested by the Knox County Sherriff’s Office. The protestors...
by Ray Hill | May 2, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Carroll Reece, congressman from Tennessee’s First Congressional District, had served for a decade. Yet, in the 1930 general election, Reece found himself surprisingly hard pressed by the challenge of Oscar Byrd Lovette, the former District Attorney for...