by design | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “The first reaction to truth is hatred.” Tertullian (c 200 AD) Why do humans seem to preferentially dwell on what they lack rather than what they have? Recently, I’ve been thinking about positivity and the contrasting negativity, notably...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Occasionally I will talk with a potential client on the phone and they will tell me they would like to hire me to represent them in regard to their criminal charges. One of my first questions is, “What are your charges?” More often than you would...
by Mike Steely | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely If you’ve never been to Rock Island State Park, you’ve missed a very different park that has just about everything you’d expect plus some very special sites. Rock Island is located between Cookeville and McMinnville in the mountains along the Caney Fork...
by Ralphine Major | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Major
Never having to live through a pandemic By Ralphine Major It is one of the simple guidelines in our new, normal world—stay home. Doing so has provided plenty of time for families to reflect. Even amid the pandemic that has affected thousands of lives, a glance...
by Joe Rector | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector My son Dallas has a lot of his grandmother’s DNA flowing through his veins. For the second year, he’s put out pepper plants in five-gallon buckets (he doesn’t have much yard at his condo). He’s babied those plants, and they’ve yielded hundreds of banana...
by Mark Nagi | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi The 2019 college football season feels like it was another lifetime ago. So much had changed since the Vols went into the victory formation at the TaxSlayer Bowl. Over the past week or so we’ve seen college football conferences drop like flies. Led by...
