Today's News

Teenagers can be vicious, and an ugly message scrawled in a Roane County High School girls restroom last week was one such jab.
When English teacher Linda Choate saw the taunt, she took action.

Soon the room was covered with sticky notes filled with positive and uplifting messages to female students and staff.
“There is a widespread problem with cruelty among teenagers. This was one incident, but it is just one part of a wider problem that made me choose to try to change the perspective,” Choate said.

Harriman attorney Donice Butler might not have to face her accusers at a disciplinary hearing next month.
This no-go could have nothing to do with a continuance in the case, either.
On Wednesday, Butler said she is in the process of working to resolve the matter with the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility.
If negotiations go well, she said the hearing won’t be necessary and the case would be over.
Some former clients have accused Butler of wrongdoing.

A couple of years ago, my doctor made one of those scrunched-up faces he gets when talking about my left knee.
It’s a face that says, indirectly, I’m looking at a bionic knee or two down the road.
Those of you who have followed me for the past 11 years or so know I’m no stranger to surgery. At least one of them saved my life.
But this is one surgery I don’t want to have.
Not now.
Not ever.
After last year’s talk with my doc, I backed down on my hiking. I quit trying to run. I put away my tennis racquet.

In the past couple of years we have seen and heard many things from some of our Tea Party-type friends that have amazed us, but probably the most amazing thing yet was Marsha Blackburn’s complaint this past Sunday about the U.S. Senate not being in session on that day!

Miss Marsha is, as you no doubt know, one of the members of Congress from a district in Middle Tennessee, one of the strongholds of the Church of Christ.

We had always thought that that area was a member in good standing of the Bible Belt.