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Today's Opinions

  • CARTOON: April 4, 2013
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  • CARTOON: April 11, 2013
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  • Playing the fool

    Many are familiar with Shakespeare’s King Henry V, or at least the St. Crispin’s speech.
    Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh both played Henry in film versions of the play.
    King Henry V is actually the conclusion of the Herniad — a four-part series of historical plays. Of the plays I read when I took a Shakespeare class in college, those four were my favorite.

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  • Greetings from the BIG APPLE

    Dear Nana:

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  • 'Something wicked this way comes'

    Halloween.

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  • LaFollette Press veteran returns 'home'

     I’ve come full circle during the past 14 months.After leaving the LaFollette Press last July for what I thought would be forever, here I am again. Tuesday was my first official day back at the paper where I built my career in community journalism the previous two decades as sports editor. Appropriately, it was also my 48th birthday.

    The past year seems more like 10 years. I enjoyed my brief stints at the Roane County News and WLAF Radio/TV 12, but my heart never left The Press. 

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  • LETTER: Dump Q&A puzzling

    To the editor: 

    I attended the public information meeting Sept. 10 concerning the proposed landfill in the Duff community. No commissioners from the 5th district were there. 

    To my knowledge, the county mayor was not present. Our state representative stayed about 30 minutes. 

    The audience was allowed to ask questions of the Ketchen Land Company representatives, operators of the dump.

    I left the meeting with many unanswered questions. 

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  • I LOVE YOU, CHEESESTICKS

    Every family seems to have their own terms of endearment — maybe a special nickname or a shorten form of your first name.
    At any rate, one of the ties that bind in any family are names that tend to stick for no apparent reason.
    My children are working hard on a few for my husband.
    We have what we call “blue lights and kisses,” right before my husband leaves for work.

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