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During the dreary days of a dawning winter, we should be mindful of the creatures who have made it easier for many of us to endure a devastati…
Primaries don’t carry the same cachet as general elections, but they are just as important nonetheless because they determine who will be on t…
COVID-19 deaths in the United States now hover around 133,000. That’s the entire population of Blount County.
An elderly patient visiting East Tennessee Medical Group last week was complying with the mandatory mask requirement, although it was hanging …
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When Gov. Bill Lee announced plans for a gradual reopening of Tennessee businesses to the public in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the re…
These are the kinds of stories that are at once heartbreaking and, unfortunately, common all across the United States in the past several weeks.
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“As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. ‘Don’t be alarmed,’ …
It’s a popular trope, one we’ve seen countless times on the big and small screen. It easily can be summarized like this: Mystery illness arriv…
There’s just no way to sugarcoat it. The slow-moving coronavirus crisis has put a monumental strain on nearly every area of American life.
We’ve got a hunch that, when the folks at Webster’s gather to select a word that defines the year 2020, they might deviate from a single word …
To put it mildly, Tennessee has had one heck of a bumpy week.
Imagine this scenario:
The scene is horrendous and disheartening.
The coronavirus is coming and it doesn’t care about your politics.
If there’s been one constant in an ever-changing news environment, it is that the U.S. economy is booming. The stock market is routinely break…
Spinning — the manipulation of a story to make oneself look better — is as old as language itself.
“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick
We don’t really know our neighbors anymore. Oh, we wave at them and smile. But do we even know their names?
This a good time for us to take stock of your community newspaper.
The Blount County Public Library board of trustees met on Tuesday and among the topics of discussion was the facility’ future.
A bill that got mired in this year’s session of the state General Assembly could be resurrected next year and would make emergency 911 calls s…
We’ve all heard the saying that nothing is permanent but death and taxes. Here in Tennessee, though, there’s another near-constant in the stat…
Earth Day is Monday, April 22, and — as it was in the founding year 1970 — a good time to take inventory of our own efforts to keep this plane…
A bill is winding its way through the Tennessee Legislature and if it becomes law will signal that this state is preparing legal action to dis…
A slap upside the head is a surefire way to get somebody’s attention. Illegal but effective. It’s akin to the old defensive lineman’s techniqu…
As Jeff Weida, plant manager of Arconic Tennessee Operations, talks about the future of aluminum in Alcoa, he glances out the window of his co…
In a guest column on this page, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., writes about legislation he sponsored to preserve our environmental and cu…
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