When the state of Tennessee executes an inmate, it is frequently over the pleas of those who say the condemned man is no longer the same person as the teenager …
His name was Gary Scott, and he is a hero
I can’t claim to have known him – he was a friend of a friend of my late husband’s during the late ‘60s, and since then I struggled mightily, and …
Toothache
Dental care is what patients who come to Remote Area Medical’s pop-up clinics need most. They start lining up 24 hours in advance for RAM’s services, which are provided free …
Loe down and mean
I knew Lloyd Daugherty. Lloyd Daugherty was a friend of mine.
And Gary Loe, you are no Lloyd Daugherty.
Lloyd died in 2014, and Loe is his successor as chair of the …
Goodbye to a friend who never had a chance
Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone. Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
The name’s not right, but it was close enough to keep …
Dear Republicans: Stop with the crazy
One of the unofficial rules for writing an opinion column is to pick a topic. One topic – find the good and praise it; expose the bad and beat it …
Fountain City flashback: New painting by old friend
The two-year saga of the sad demise of the Fountain City Diner generated a ton of comments from KnoxTNToday readers, one of the most pleasant of which came from a …
Arnold Schwarzbart: History is the things we must never forget
I abandoned my plan to write about how crazy the housing industry’s getting when I came across a 2016 Facebook post by Mary Linda Schwarzbart about the work she’s doing …