This is Cumberland Avenue requiem week, so here’s another one. I wouldn’t dare try to follow Beth Kinnane’s excellent summation of the modern history of The Strip, so I’ve borrowed …
DAR sets date to honor those buried at Mars Hill
What: Dedication of grave markers for veterans buried at Mars Hill Cemetery in West Knoxville. Sponsored by the Cavett Station Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the program …
Suffer the little children
Overall, I had a pretty good Christmas. The cold snap was brutal, but family, friends, food, lights and music made the season better than tolerable, so I was lucky. Some …
Santos, Campfield and lying in politics: How low will they go?
Last week during one of the 15 roll calls it took congressional Republicans to elect Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House, there was a long pause when the reading clerk …
Briggs to anti-abortion lobby: Bring it
State Sen. Richard Briggs does a lot of reading. This week he says he’s thinking that he might need to study up on drag shows.
He was joking.
Probably.
Or maybe not, since …
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I’m keeping the headline of the schmaltzy New Year’s Eve column I’d written about dealing with the loss of old friends. But the news stories being generated by the Supreme …
Russians claim Knoxville woman killed in Ukraine: Russians lie
Last week I got a call from an out-of-town friend who wanted to know if I’d heard about a Knoxville woman who had been killed in Ukraine. He wanted to …
Gloria Johnson: The hardest-working woman in politics
This is the season for taking stock. We look back, evaluate and resolve to do better next year. Maybe some find reason to pat themselves on the back, but that’s …