Every parent knows the sinking feeling that hits when your child drops from the monkey bars or when a grandparent can’t get up from a fall. Fo…
April is Financial Literacy month. It also marks 12 months of extraordinary challenges for many individuals and families in Tennessee. While t…
Failure tends to be more public than success. We fret about it, we try to avoid it, and we question ourselves every time we have unconventiona…
The Cold War was more than just a clash of nuclear superpowers: it was also a fundamental clash of ideas. As the Soviet Union and their allies…
One of the great things about living in the U.S. is that our city and county governments are required to keep their citizens informed about th…
When government fails, it’s the rare public official who says, “Oops. My fault.”
Under the guise of providing better educational opportunities for needy students in low-performing schools, education savings accounts fail th…
Several weeks ago we began talking with two legends of Motor Racing Network announcers. If you listed to MRN from 1980s through early 2000s yo…
In the quiet countryside of Bat Harbor between the old log church and the new church, I got a chance to talk with two legends of NASCAR broadc…
You can almost hear the dual exhausts from Junior Johnson’s Ford coupe echo through the hot June nights along the Hooper Highway even after 70 years.
Spring arrived Thursday and must have helped push the temperature to about 80 degrees for our hometown, but the warm trend took the sidelines …
Spring is just two days after St. Patrick’s Day, reminding us of the season’s greening, and we feel spring already in the air with temperature…
The cold end of February will stretch out longer than usual for our hometown with an additional day referred to as Leap Day 2020, because of t…
Snow made believers out of the weather reports warning that this might happen on Thursday, when the early flakes mixed with slow rain continue…
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