by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It was a new, green highway sign along a beautiful stretch of rural road. I had seen the one posted on Tazewell Pike a few weeks ago shortly after the highway was dedicated, but I had not seen the road marker along East Emory...
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly When the University of Tennessee started fall classes in September 1953, there was one very important item on the agenda for student body leaders. It was a movement to select a mascot. Both local newspapers broke the story on Sunday, Sept. 20....
by design | Aug 22, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi The bad times… oh there have been a few. From Lane Kiffin’s midnight run to Derek Dooley’s Orange Pants to Butch Jones’s Champions of Life and to Jeremy Pruitt’s COVID sleeve that covered everything but his eyeballs, Tennessee’s football program has had...
by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Democrats Successes…Republicans Not So Much Local Democrats have sent out an email bragging about the results of the recent election. Among the accomplishments, they boast of are “flipping 7 precincts blue that Trump won in 2020.” The Democrats...
by design | Aug 21, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Clifford Davis had served as the congressman from the congressional district which was comprised of Shelby County. Davis had long been an institution in Shelby County and his name had first been on the ballot in 1923. Cliff Davis had long been one of the...
by design | Aug 15, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Before I became a lawyer I had the naïve impression that because lawyers wore suits and ties each day that they all worked hard and knew what they were doing. I thought that if they went to the trouble of wearing such fancy clothes, they must be...
