Today's Opinions

I’m no big game hunter.

Friends will tell you the most shooting I’ve ever done is with a camera.

I can honestly lay claim to fame for getting a big deer.

I got my one and only six-pointer on Memorial Day weekend in 2005.

As not to embellish (and to keep myself out of a TWRA inquisition on why I was hunting out of season), I will come clean and remind you that the buck picked me out and chose to commit suicide on the front end of my old green Jeep Cherokee.

I feel a great deal of empathy for the residents of Swan Pond, who had their lives turned upside down from the ash spill.

The recent letter from a resident, Sarah McCoin, prompted me to write.

I agree that it would be a dream come true to have TVA return your area to what it once was, or make it even better. But sadly, TVA does not work that way.

The money that could have been used to help Swan Pond residents is being wasted on projects TVA considers far more important.

We are pleased to see that Chancellor Frank V. Williams III is the guest of honor at the Roane County Heritage Commission’s gala to help fund needed repairs at the Old Roane County Courthouse.

Williams and the group of other residents who rallied to save the old building from demolition a few decades ago deserve more credit than they are ever likely to receive.

Not only is the old courthouse of architectural importance, but it also, as the storehouse of important records from the past, is a treasure trove linking us to those who came before.