by Ralphine Major | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major Many called it God’s gift during COVID-19. White Christmases are rare in East Tennessee. I can only recall two or three of them. On Christmas Eve, as predicted, the rain turned to snowflakes. Quickly, huge snowflakes came pouring down! ...
by Jim Ferguson | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” Thomas Paine By Dr. Jim Ferguson A...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi It finally happened. After 25 years of playing fantasy football, many of those years playing in more than one league, I can finally put a fantasy football championship on my resume. My team, “Schiano Sunday,” beat Russell Smith’s “Freshwater Sarks” 115-75...
by design | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. James V. DeLong was magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School and, while now retired, had a very distinguished legal career in Washington. He wrote a recent article for the American Thinker called “The Honor of the Legal Profession.” I...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Jan 4, 2021 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan If you have watched enough lawyer movies and TV shows, then you may have come across one where someone is facing a murder charge and they marry a key witness so the key witness cannot testify against the person who is now their spouse. Is that how...
by Steve Hunley | Jan 3, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Recently the Knoxville News-Sentinel published a nice little article that was more editorial than news story in covering the Knox County Commission’s discussion of whether or not to dissolve the Board of Health. The reporter covering the spectacle of...