by design | Jul 12, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Hamilton Fish Kean doubtless is unfamiliar to most readers, but he served in the United States Senate and was part of a political dynasty that exists to this day. Kean’s son Robert Winthrop Kean served in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely As I’ve shared before, my wife and I have visited most of Tennessee’s state parks as well as many parks in our surrounding states and several national parks. A new Tennessee park is now on our bucket list, and it looks very, very...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor In 1889, a tragic engineering failure occurred at the South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania. The dam held back millions of tons of water and had been neglected for years. Important safeguards had been removed, and...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Two weeks ago, my iPhone dinged at midnight. Sleepy-eyed, I looked at it and saw that my phone provider was sending a verification code. My thoughts were to leave it alone and take care of it in the morning. Throughout the night, I received...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
Socialists and communists don’t make things; they take things. Greg Gutfeld By Dr. Jim Ferguson By the time you read this essay, the 250th anniversary of America’s founding will have passed, but the Ferguson clan remains proud to be Americans. To commemorate our...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly In another long-ago lifetime, I was a daily blogger for the local newspaper, along with writing a weekly column much like this one. The task was to write commentaries each week on various happenings in the daily world of sports I thought might be of...
