What’s gone wrong with your country?
What’s gone wrong with my country?
What’s gone wrong with our country?
Overwhelming questions about an overwhelming collection of issues. And everyone today has their opinion and …
Our world today
Where’s the Memorial Day for shooting victims?
Today, our country observes Memorial Day, as we have done officially on the last Monday in May for 51 years. Prior to 1971, different states and cities chose a variety …
Children deserve our focus
It has been two days since an 18-year-old high-school dropout stormed into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, barricaded himself in a classroom and started shooting an AR-15-style rifle, resulting …
Betsy Pickle: Embedded
I have very little experience in writing about politics. My journalism career has leaned toward feature stories and entertainment criticism. I’m actually passionate about our government and how I think …
Lakeshore Park trees: Xs and ohs
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a pickleball court.”
Wait, that’s not what Joyce Kilmer wrote. Maybe that’s the version the Lakeshore Park Conservancy stumbled onto …
Sen. Massey pushes electronic billboard bill
Knoxville state Sen. Becky Massey is sponsoring a billboard industry sweetheart bill that creates a state override on local zoning decisions which regulate electronic billboards. It seems the philosophy underlying …
New year, different approach
I have a sketchy relationship with New Year’s resolutions.
When I was a teen and younger adult, I was devoted to the concept of setting up goals for self-improvement, starting on …
Please and thank you
For most people in this country, this is a special week. If you’re a Christian, this Saturday is the day set aside to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ some …