by design | Apr 20, 2026 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector It’s that time of year that might be the best. The weather is warm enough to forget about heavy coats, but cool enough to keep a light jacket handy. Yards are mowed and manicured, and shrubs and flowers are bursting with colors. I am in a transition...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Democrat-Socialists talk about affordability, but actions, as always, speak louder than words. With perhaps as much as $10 billion in taxpayer money lost to fraud in Minnesota, Democrats in the state legislature stopped an effort to investigate the...
by design | Apr 19, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Eleanor Roosevelt was no ordinary First Lady. Separated from her husband, at least emotionally if not literally, by past mistakes, Mrs. Roosevelt set out to recreate herself while living in the White House. If her husband was known worldwide, then quite...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi What in the name of Abby Conklin is going on here? The Tennessee Lady Vols, one of the most revered and history-making programs in all of women’s basketball, has seen a mass defection. Four players (Janiah Barker, Zee Spearman, Nya Robertson, Jersey...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Here’s the question for today. If “The Stop” against LSU in 1959 is the greatest defensive play in Tennessee history, what play comes in second? Here’s one man’s opinion of such game-changing defensive plays, starting with s second look at “The...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor It hangs there every night; silent, massive and impossibly distant. Almost 240,000 miles away, the moon drifts in perfect rhythm, revolving around the Earth. It’s so large in diameter that if placed across...
