Betty Bean, Author at Knox TN Today

Booker sings a new song

Posted by Betty Bean | Feb 23, 2024 | Archives, Betty Bean | 0

(Editor’s Note: Betty Bean wrote this circa 2017, on the occasion of Bob Booker’s CD release.) The...

Posted by Betty Bean | Feb 1, 2024 | Archives, Betty Bean | 0

Alex Haley left us an uncountable number of pithy quotes, but nothing he ever said rang truer than...

Posted by Betty Bean | Jan 25, 2024 | Archives, Betty Bean | 0

A couple of weeks ago, state Rep. Jason Zachary slapped a quote from Plato onto the digital...

Posted by Betty Bean | Jan 18, 2024 | Archives, Betty Bean | 0

I spent my first 12 years counting the days until I could be a Bobcat. My father and his siblings...

Posted by Betty Bean | Jan 11, 2024 | Archives, Betty Bean | 0

I had a notion to write my first 2024 column asking why Republicans are so mean. Having taken most...