When I first moved to Tennessee, I joined the Optimist Club in Athens. I came to meet a lot of good people in McMinn County through this organ…
While attending the McMinn County School Board meeting last night, I got the distinct impression the board was being as polite as they could t…
When the McMinn Board of Education made the decision not to include the graphic novel “Maus,” a whole lot of unanticipated consequences occurr…
Well, we did it now, made national news for all the wrong reasons. First, full transparency, I have not read the graphic novel “Maus.” I remem…
There was a skit from Saturday Night Live where someone was opening the door to their refrigerator and was instantly wrestled down to the floo…
I can remember as a child getting my vaccine for polio.
This is the year for the biennial reorganization of the McMinn County Democratic Party.
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E.G. Fisher Public Library created a display for this year’s LGBTQ Gay Pride month with books and flags.
I read somewhere that a local organization here was going to have a celebration of “Juneteenth.”
When I was old enough to vote, I came to realize my father did not vote.
There seems to be a lot of people that will vote according to one or two issues in the upcoming elections.
Now that the Democratic president-vice president ticket is set and Vice President Biden with Sen. Harris are going to be the Democratic ticket…
My first experience of being edited was by my mother.
The deadline to register to vote is Feb. 3.
On Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. in the community room at the E.G. Fisher Public Library, Ms. Gina Brown from Vital Records at McMinn Health Department wi…
The definition is: “In the early 16th century, a quid pro quo was something obtained from an apothecary. That’s because when quid pro quo (New…
I want to apologize to the supporters of Trump for the upcoming year.
We have legislators who are making laws for us and not meeting with us, not talking to us, not sharing their thoughts with us and, most of all…
After the election of Trump, people around the country wanted to figure out a way to push back against the policies he was wanting to implemen…
The New York Times has written a series of articles under the title of: “The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times observin…
One of the things I appreciate about the South is they are not led around by fads.
There have been two heart-rending stories — one from the Washington Post and one from the New York Times — both talking about the lack of heal…
George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, was in office during a time of many challenges and change.
One of the most recent tweets by Trump was: “The Democrats are getting ZERO work done in Congress. All they are focused on is trying to prove …
Schools now are holding drills to train children in class about what to do if there is someone in their school shooting and killing students a…
“If those people are too lazy to get off their butts and go fill out a form to register and vote they don’t deserve to vote!”
Did that scare you? Both Fox News and most conservative writers have been trying to equate socialism to communism because that was the scary w…
The Green New Deal wants to change our economy that is based on mostly fossil fuel into a new, sustainable economy that is environmentally sou…
