by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
We made the best of times in the worst of times. Kathryn Limbaugh By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a famous scene in the movie “A Few Good Men” where actor Jack Nicholson, portraying a marine colonel, shouts, “You can’t handle the truth!” in defense of his murderous...
by design | Feb 20, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly Ray Mears not only made orange a household color in Knoxville, but wherever else Vol fans might have gathered. Orange became a respectable color to wear to the games. He coined the phrase “Big Orange Country,” despite assertions to the contrary....
by design | Feb 14, 2022 | Columnist, Major
There is a reason red was the color of the day on Friday, February 4. People from all walks of life across the country could be seen wearing red dresses, red sweaters, red jackets, and red ties in support of women’s heart health. What a worthy cause to recognize each...
by design | Feb 14, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector For the last few days, I’ve been running a chainsaw to cut up a couple of trees that fell over into the neighbor’s field. In the process, I managed to come in contact with a poison ivy vine that was about the circumference of a rope that tree companies...
by design | Feb 14, 2022 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I have to think it is only a good thing that the child seatbelt laws in place are more strict than when I was a child. I recall riding in truck beds as a child. That is crazy to think about children doing that now. Today, it seems children must be...
by design | Feb 13, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Republican Incumbents Beware Never before, at least not in my lifetime, can I recall the officers of the local Republican Party more blatantly using their positions for self-promotion and self-preferment. The latest is failed state House candidate...
