by design | Jul 13, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Good Job, Senator Blackburn Senator Marsha Blackburn and Congressman David Kustoff are sponsoring a bill that, if passed, will require 15-year mandatory sentences on those individuals who have three or more serious felonies and...
by design | Jul 13, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Michigan’s Governor G. Mennen Williams By Ray Hill Gerhard Mennen Williams’ name is a reminder of his good luck in having been born into a family fortune. His grandfather, Gerhard Mennen, a German immigrant, started a business selling talcum powder, which at the time...
by design | Jul 13, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
‘It was tied when we started’ By Tom Mattingly The tie game is no longer with us, despite some memorable occurrences in games involving the University of Tenn-essee. You might not know that it’s been nearly 30 years since tie games on the gridiron went out...
by design | Jul 7, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
Never a dull moment By Tom Mattingly In this business, Vol fans are always asking intriguing questions – whether it’s on the street, in restaurants, via social media, or on the telephone. There was a postal employee in Chattanooga who called one year and asked who the...
by design | Jul 7, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
LOYALTY The Power of Staying in a World that Often Walks Away By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor I was recently introduced to a story that had somehow evaded me all these years: the story of Hachikō, the Akita dog who was adopted and...
by design | Jul 7, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Winning By Dr. Jim Ferguson It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings Our war for the soul of America continues. It may not end in my lifetime, even though I pray for peace, as does President Trump. As war with Great Britain approached, Patrick Henry in 1775...
