Today's Opinions

In recent months city newspapers have been tanking left and right.

It seems like the biggest publications are barely hanging on in these times of economic uncertainty, and some of them are just plain going broke.

In fact, I have read several stories from some of the larger news organizations about the dismal hope of future monetary gains for newsprint even after the current recession is over.

On any given day I can see thousands of students on The University of Tennessee campus 'plugged in' to headphones and iPods and cell phones.

Change is not easy.  

I’ll be the first to admit it.  If you want to know how well I have handled it historically, just ask my parents how I responded to the news that we were moving cross country just weeks after my high school graduation.  

I can assure you it was not pretty.

With that little confession out of the way, I will now readily admit over the years I have learned that change is a necessary evil.  Without it there is no moving forward or even backward for that matter.