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M.L. Smith: Foreclosures wreck lives as well as credit
Published 7/22/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 3 comments
When a local family backed out of their driveway last summer, they paused to take one last, long look at their empty home. They thought they would never see it again.
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Christy Parrott: A child's training never seems to end
Published 7/22/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 1 comment
The other day I stopped to lean my head against the wall and collect myself before venting my frustration at having to tell my kids to stop doing something for the thousandth time. A scripture from Proverbs ran through my ...
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Dale McFeatters: The fatal dilemma of the lone-wolf killer
Published 7/21/2012 at 6:46 p.m. 22 comments
The Aurora, Colo., theater shootings represent one of law enforcement's worst nightmares: a "lone wolf" killer acting with no accomplices and with no discernible motive other than a sense of burning resentment and persecution, opening fire in a public place.
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Brenda L. Buescher: Hospitals should commit to LGBT care
Published 7/21/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 7 comments
Last month, American health care facilities had the opportunity to publicly declare their support for equality and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients. However, the vast majority of Tennessee hospitals chose the right to remain silent instead.
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Steve Drevik: Obamacare repeal would hurt some small businesses
Published 7/21/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 27 comments
Every day in the office, as I return from lunch, my ritual is to go through the day's incoming mail. Last week, I got a pleasant surprise — a check from our insurance company based on the medical loss ratio, ...
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Bill Hagerty: Gov. Bill Haslam put Tennessee in position to grow
Published 7/21/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 2 comments
Ask any local Chamber of Commerce leader in Tennessee and they will tell you that the competition for new businesses is fierce among states.
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Joyce Richman: Living will forces questions of life's meaning
Published 7/15/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 1 comment
A living will is one of those documents you don't usually think about until circumstances force you to, and then its piercing questions cut straight to the meaning of life.
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Paul Jacobs: Occupy movement cleared way for all
Published 7/14/2012 at 3:00 a.m. 35 comments
Last fall, the people of America came out into the streets for a simple reason: They could see our political system had become completely corrupted by money and gerrymandering, causing them to lose all faith in the possibility for change ...
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JD Howard: East Tennessee visitors bring 'yuanfen' to China
Published 7/8/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 0 comments
I have not been, as Confucius said, the most dutiful of sons. Since moving to China several years ago, I have not ventured back to Knoxville even once. Thank goodness the universe recently conspired to cover this conspicuous character flaw ...
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Mike Kittl: Lions Clubs' 'crusade against darkness'
Published 7/7/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 2 comments
Back in June 1917, Lions Clubs — now known as the International Association of Lions Clubs — began as an idea, a dream, of a Chicago businessman named Melvin Jones.
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Cathie Bird: State needs citizen input on rules for hydrofracturing
Published 7/7/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 25 comments
Oil and gas production in Tennessee is nothing new. It has been happening in this state for more than 100 years.
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Father Ragan Schriver: Agency offers aid on immigration issues
Published 7/7/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 1 comment
With the Fourth of July holiday fresh in our minds, we celebrate the founding of our great nation and are reminded that we are all immigrants. We come from a great melting pot of cultures and can take special pride ...
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Tim Young: Supreme Court keeps health care reform moving in the right direction
Published 7/1/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 5 comments
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld as constitutional the Affordable Care Act, the law that provides the foundation for health reform, what will that mean to the health of East Tennesseans?
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Tim Lee: A letter to Zoe
Published 7/1/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 4 comments
Dear Zoe Victoria, you might not remember me, but you stole my heart the moment I met you and your grandmother at Cracker Barrel a few weeks ago. Your beautiful face, long black ringlets of hair and sparkling sea blue ...
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Mark Harmon: Big Brothers get as much out of a match as Little Brothers
Published 7/1/2012 at 4:00 a.m. 0 comments
Levi Lacey turns 16 on July 4. He's a good young person who likes kickboxing, soccer and the TV program "Top Gear." He'll be a junior this fall at Gibbs High School. He gets good grades and plans to go ...
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