Welcome to another week. I hope you each had a chance to get away from the news for a bit. There’s been a lot to absorb for a long time and it looks to keep coming...
Welcome to the weekend. I wish the news was better. Please spend some time taking care of yourself and your family. I hope you find some joy and rest. Please do so safely. International News: There...
It’s mid-week and we’re about to get some tentative answers about schools in the county. Political leaders are making their feelings known. Parents, teachers and students have their own feelings as we’ve struggled with controlling the...
I hope your first full week of July is going well. Attention this week and weeks after will be increasingly focused on the looming start of a new school year. The School Board is set to...
The announcement that masks are now required inside buildings in Knox County has certainly dominated today’s local news. Predictably, it has drawn diametrically opposed reactions ranging from relief at an overdue simple action, to outrage at...
Welcome to Friday. Weeks that seemed long to me when all this first began are now clipping by. Next week is July and we head into the heart of summer. It’s a great time to hit...
This comes to you on a day when the virus has become more personal to me. Until now I have only known the virus indirectly: A father of a friend died, but he lived in New...
Businesses continue to re-open and new ones are opening. We’re moving around more and we’re making plans for school openings. For this progress to continue, we need to work together to stop the spread of COVID-19....
Welcome to another week, everyone. Cases continue to rise across the world, country, state and county. Here’s hoping for a better week than last week, which was by many measures the worst week for new infections...
Welcome to Friday, everyone. I hope your week was acceptable and your weekend might bring some mild pleasures. How is that for adjusting expectations? Seriously, stay safe and find some joy. Life is too short to...