Opinion: To be effective and humane, blood centers must serve bloody well all of us
The caller had a point to make about blood donations.

The caller had a point to make about blood donations.

A Knoxville state representative is hoping to parlay her notoriety as one of the so-called "Tennessee Three" to the United States Senate in 2024.

To generations that man-on-the-street interviews show can't name the two countries that border the United States, don't know whether the U.S. has ever had a female vice president and can't name what percent 11 is of 100, the Vietnam War may well have been fought in the 19th century and resulted in the Declaration of Independence.

As long as there are letter grades given in schools, there will be students saying the grades don't represent how hard I worked, how hard I'm trying, what I have to live with at home, what advantages I don't have or why I can't learn the way she can.

And now, as famed radio broadcaster Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story ... about Tennessee's third grade reading law.

Well, they can't say they didn't warn us.

Our dictionary definition for "pachyderm" is "a very large mammal with thick skin, especially an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus."

Perhaps in January, they'll all be on the same page, all smiles again, all ready to pass conservative measures for the people of Tennessee.

Don Sundquist, the two-term Tennessee Republican governor and six-term United States House member who died Sunday, was often underestimated.

A social and economic equity study? Why not, we haven't had one in two or three weeks.
