Approximately how many miles do your drive in an average week?

By RON FOURNIER / AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — One Clinton jets to Alaska and Iraq with Republicans, and enthusiastically sponsors legislation with GOP lawmakers who impeached her husband. The other plays golf with former President Bush and accepts assignments from the current one. All this bipartisan snuggling by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and…

By CHARLES C. HAYNES / Columnist Just when I thought the fight over evolution couldn’t get any more political, the president of the United States weighs in with an apparent endorsement of teaching “intelligent design” in public schools.“Both sides ought to be properly taught,” President Bush told a reporter on Aug. 2, “so people can…

By GEORGE PLAGENZ / Columnist Now that we have raised our nation’s consciousness about the dangers of smoking, maybe it is time to go to work on another deadly killer in our midst and a destroyer of families.The culprit is drinking — alcoholic consumption.We experimented with a solution to the drinking problem in the years…

By TAD BARTIMUS / Columnist If Casey Sheehan was brave enough to fight and die for his country in Iraq, surely George W. Bush has enough guts to listen to his mother grieve in Texas.As parents, George and Laura Bush should feel Cindy Sheehan’s pain and invite her into their Crawford home for tea and…

By JAMES CLARK / Columnist For whatever reason, the government has decided to engrave “Operation Iraqi Freedom” on the tombstones of U.S. soldiers recently killed in the war. And, as you’d expect, some families are mad.I can see why. I wouldn’t want the White House’s catchphrase on the tombstone of one of my family members.…

Birth Annoucements Baby GirlReba and Barry Delong of Spencer announce the birth of their daughter Ashley Suzanne Delong. She was born July 4 at River Park Hospital weighing 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Her siblings are Kendra, Cassandra, Nicole, Christopher, B.J. and Austin. Grandparents are John Ed and Wanda Simmons of Spencer and Pauline and the…

Bonner FCEC met Aug. 12 at 10 a.m. in the Magolia Room at the Warren County Administrative Offices.President Vita Gulley conducted the monthly meeting. Freda Bouldin read “God Grants us Faith, Hope and Love,” by Helen Steiner Rice. The club sang “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.” Gulley gave a report on “Healthy Choices” and…

The Community Playhouse, Inc. is pleased to announce open auditions for its opening production of the 2005-06 season; the mystery/thriller “Wait Until Dark,” by Frederick Knott, and directed by Stuart Fulkerson. The auditions will be held at the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 2:00 p.m. and Monday, Aug. 29,…

By MARGARET HOBBS / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Looking for something fun and don’t have to travel hours out of town? You need to plan to be in Cookeville Sept. 8-11 for their 10th annual Fall FunFest.On Sept. 8 Tennessee Tech football team takes on Lambuth University at 7 p.m. for a rare…