by Ray Hill | Dec 20, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Edward Terry Sanford, an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, had set out for a routine visit to his dentist’s office on the morning of March 8, 1930. Within a few hours, Justice Sanford was dead. President Herbert Hoover nominated Fourth Circuit...
by design | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men. And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.”’ Jesus Christ (Luke 18:2-3) By Dr. Jim Ferguson It has been a month since the November...
by Mark Nagi | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi I’m writing this article at 2:24 a.m. on Wednesday, December 9, a few hours after the final NFL game of the week. Baltimore beat an awful Dallas team tonight 34-17, but that’s not the big news. I’m here to type a rambling, hopefully, coherent piece on why...
by Tom Mattingly | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, there was one collegiate game on the tube each weekend, several emanating from Knoxville. ABC had the broadcast rights, and whatever game they chose, that’s what the nation saw, with a few exceptions for so-called...
by Joe Rector | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I’ve always been amazed at this country we call home. Over the years, this land and its people have bowed their backs in the face of adversity and prevailed. It found roots in a revolution to separate from a monarchy that treated people as second-class...
by Ralphine Major | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major We wait the entire year to hear them. They bring us joy and comfort. Yet, it has been amazing at the lack of Christmas carols I have heard this year. And of all years, we need to hear them now. Even though our family is not attending in-person church...
