by Ray Hill | Jun 23, 2019 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Edward H. Crump, leader of the Shelby County political machine, had decided to go to Congress in 1930. The incumbent, Hubert Fisher, had not been ready to retire despite the fact he was quite nearly entirely deaf. Relations between Crump and his long-time...
by design | Jun 17, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I am Trinitarian in my faith, but also philosophically. I maintain that four choices are often too many and two are not enough. Three seems about right to me. My wife Becky says I can find three options for almost any situation. My father was a...
by Mark Nagi | Jun 17, 2019 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman By the time you read this article, there will be less than 75 days to go until the Tennessee Volunteers open the 2019 season on August 31st at home against Georgia State. And there isn’t very much chatter about it. I’ve lived in Knoxville for nearly 20...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Jun 17, 2019 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan This question seems to come up quite a bit on TV. Someone is about to sell drugs to an undercover cop and the drug dealer says to the cop, “If I ask you if you are a cop, you have to tell me, right?” No, no, no! I have no idea where this came...
by design | Jun 17, 2019 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore I grew up with Shirley Temple. I adored her, saw most of her movies, and emulated her as much as possible, all except for the shining curls because my hair was straight as a stick. She was four years older than me, born in California in 1928. She got...
by Ralphine Major | Jun 17, 2019 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is a fascinating plant to watch. The beautiful white petals with deep-red markings open up wide in the morning as if to greet a new day. A bush with only a single Rose of Sharon flower may be covered with blooms by day’s end. But after they...