The East Tennessee Freedom School is getting ready to kick off its seventh summer of providing literacy and educational enrichment courses in East Knoxville. This year, Freedom Schools will operate …
Defending the AR-15: The casual cruelty of the GOP
A group of students and parents who were protesting gun violence encountered former House Republican Caucus Vice Chair Scotty Campbell in a Capitol Hill hallway during the waning days of …
More Nashville shenanigans
“Don’t pi** on my leg and tell me it’s raining” is one of the McWherterisms that stuck with me after covering state government back in the day. Another was the …
What’s next for the Tennessee Three?
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call.
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall.
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled.
There’s a battle outside and …
Epidemic of transgender killers: Say what?
There was probably still blood on the floor at Nashville’s Covenant School when Republicans hatched their talking point. The first clue to where they were going was when Tim Burchett …
Tim, please stop this foolishness
I’ve been trying not to write this column for at least a year now, but avoiding the subject of Tim Burchett keeps getting harder. The more he talks, the more …
It’s not about the babies
The never-ending argument over when life begins is central to the issue of abortion. Anti-abortion absolutists like the ones who control Tennessee government (and most Southern states) say that life …
Hard times for a mill town; new life for the Pigeon River
“Pigeon River Just Ahead, Polluted by Champion International. Lord Help Us, EPA Won’t.”
The billboard that delivered the above message was erected by a Cocke County environmental group called the Dead …