By Nat Hentoff / Columnist In my neighborhood near the World Trade Center, for weeks after the horrifying terrorist attacks, there were letters, posters and photographs of the missing on the walls of stores, apartment buildings and any available space. These postings pleaded for any information about their whereabouts. But as we now know, nearly…

By Ed Kimbrell / Columnist We well may be beyond the easy questions now about the brutal attacks of Sept. 11 and need to see our journalism begin to move into difficult, troubled waters and explore one of the oldest parts of reporting: Why did this terror attack occur?You can run and look for easy…

By Charlie Johnson / Columnist Since tomorrow is Labor Day, it seemed fitting to do a column on idioms that relate to work or the workplace. It’s probably safe to say this will be a subject with an almost universal appeal since the great majority of us are among the working class, or have been…

Our Viewpoint There is no way to sugar coat the incident which took place during halftime of the Pioneer football game Friday night.In an attempt to motivate his team and generate much-needed enthusiasm, head coach Gerald Tidwell lost control. He picked up a football helmet, flung it across the locker room and it hit one…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard PARIS High Funeral Home president Don L. Paris died unexpectedly Friday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. He was 51.Paris began his funeral direction career with High Funeral Home in 1972 after graduating from Gufton and Jones School in Atlanta, Ga. He followed his father,…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The bus driver accused of dropping off a 7-year-old girl at the wrong bus stop Tuesday afternoon believes the account of the incident, as told in Friday’s Standard, does not tell the entire story.“There were a lot of circumstances I had no control over and…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) BENNETT Warren County High School head football coach Gerald Tidwell has been suspended by school officials for a halftime incident at Friday night’s game that resulted in an injury to one of the Pioneers’ players.During an admittedly fiery halftime speech at Shelbyville, Tidwell,…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard ATNIP A photographer and photo expert by trade, Bruce Atnip is one of seven announcing his candidacy for city alderman.Atnip said he has one main priority if elected – to make a difference.He said he supports the Barren Fork Greenway project and Main Street McMinnville,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard CAMPBELL A call to 911 from a 7-year-old boy who was left home alone led to the discovery of a meth lab Thursday.Arrested as a result of the discovery was Joe Blanton Campbell, 30, who is the boyfriend of the child’s mother. Campbell is charged…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard It was between 60 and 70 acres of trash, but members of a local radio control club think the old city landfill near Sunset Point Road is a treasure.Even though city officials called it a developing city park, its name is not yet official and…