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Twenty years later and the images still shock and sicken. The horrific explosions, the billowing smoke, the raining debris, the towers collapsing.
We never thought we’d be here, 18 months after the Trump administration declared a public health emergency in response to the global COVID-19 …
It’s been more than a year since the nation began its long, tortured ordeal with COVID-19.
To say that 2020 and the beginning of 2021 have been challenging is an understatement. Businesses and residents across the country are still r…
Under the auspices of saving taxpayer dollars, many local governments — and even the entire state of Florida — are moving toward removing publ…
It has been a couple weeks since Gov. Bill Lee issued an executive order that allowed businesses to fully reopen (but still encouraged followi…
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“Have you tried getting gas yet?”
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Dear Editor:
“Have you tried getting gas yet?”
Quality local journalism is essential to creating an informed and engaged public and ensuring a thriving democracy. But local journalism has b…
Tennessee Republican lawmakers are close to passing two bills that would further decrease government transparency and accountability. We say R…
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, bringing $1,400 into millions of Americans’ bank a…
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.
“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…
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