by design | Aug 17, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Leftists Have No Desire To Punish Crime Or Criminals By Steve Hunley The hand-wringing about the horrific crimes in our nation’s capital needs and deserves attention from its local leaders. Instead, it got a group of woke morons who are doing their best to run it...
by design | Aug 17, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Our Congressman Richard W. Austin By Ray Hill For a decade, the congressman from Tennessee’s Second Congressional District was Richard W. Austin. Lean of frame, clean-shaven with piercing eyes and a bald pate, R. W. Austin counted his friends by the thousands. ...
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The times they were a-changin’ in college football By Tom Mattingly It’s hard to believe that decisions made in the 1960s by coaches and players could have such far-reaching impacts. There had been a fallow period in Tennessee football from 1958 to 1963, when the...
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
When Mercy Writes Your Story By Justin Pratt Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor I was only a 4th or 5th grader when a group of boys and I thought it would be funny to throw paint we had found onto the side of Alice Bell Elementary School in the early 1990s. I...
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Child’s pay By Joe Rector I’m not sure if children today have “chores” that they are required to complete. Neither am I sure whether or not young people receive an “allowance” for performing those jobs assigned by their parents. Today’s world is so different than the...
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Bots By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes the most difficult thing about writing is composing the first sentence because it’s difficult to know where to start. In “The Sound of Music,” Maria was having a difficult time teaching the Von Trapp children how to sing. So she...
