Water advocacy groups in Tennessee are hoping to bring attention to a renewal of a controversial wastewater permit that is being proposed for …
I often say that a vote is one of the most powerful tools an American citizen has. We each get one vote, regardless of our wealth, social stan…
Before COVID-19 reached our shores, we had one of the greatest economies our country had ever seen. As we work to defeat the coronavirus, Hous…
Earlier this year, the Trump administration launched an all-hands-on-deck initiative called Operation Warp Speed to defeat COVID-19. Operation…
The single most important way to encourage a love of reading in your child is to read aloud.
Long before COVID-19, America was grappling with another deadly affliction – veteran suicide. Every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, f…
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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There are no words to describe how the year 2020 affected everyone. Our way of doing ordinary, normal tasks has changed. Our thought process h…
