by Ralphine Major | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major “In the beginning of my second-class year which would be a college junior, I decided I did not want to make the Navy a career. I resigned near Thanksgiving in 1947 and went to Beckley (West Virginia) to work for my Dad in his store, Neville Maytag...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I often get phone calls from tenants who will start the conversation talking about how terrible their landlord is and how the landlord will fix nothing and they are living in the worst living situation there ever was. Then they get to where...
by design | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. One of my sons-in-law, Jason Brown, recently sent me two articles about the dismal results of online education. The reports were from two school systems very far apart but strikingly similar in their findings. Dr. Joe Gothard, superintendent of...
by Steve Hunley | Dec 6, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi standing in front of her $24,000 refrigerator has never left my mind, especially when the economic policy of the Democratic Party is more Alexandria Ocasio Cortez than John F. Kennedy. Pelosi was showing off her...
by Ray Hill | Dec 6, 2020 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For two decades, Eugene “Gene” Talmadge, was a fixture in Georgia politics. Bold, brash and plain spoken, Gene Talmadge was almost always on the ballot for some office until his death. Born on September 23, 1884 in Forsyth, Georgia, Gene...
by design | Nov 30, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
“The question for agnosticism is, Who turned on the lights? The question for faith is, Whatever for?” Annie Dillard By Dr. Jim Ferguson Humans are creatures of habit, though some more so than others. I’ve known people who are inflexible or can deal with only one issue...
