Letters to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in response to a previous letter to the editor on Aug. 4 that attempted to debunk the sales tax holiday as a feeble attempt to give back to the people of Tennessee. Mr. Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, claimed that…

Morton Kondracke The notion that “politics stops at the water’s edge” hasn’t prevailed for much of U.S. history, but the current level of foreign-policy partisanship is dangerous to national security. Instead of uniting in the face of mortal danger — the threat of Islamic radicals intent on acquiring nuclear weapons — Republicans, Democrats and their…

Thomas Vaughn After more than a month of fierce fighting and less than a week of precarious peace, the latest Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is being analyzed widely for signs of winners and losers. Given the loss of blood and treasure on both sides, and the carnage and chaos levied on Lebanon and Israel, it is tempting…

Bill Zechman Physicians of Golden Age Greece developed many of the ideas and much of the language that we still use today. More than 300 years before the birth of Christ, Greek medicine painstakingly documented the stages in the progression of illness. The most important of these was that point at which the patient started…

Business Highlights from the Associated Press NASHVILLE (AP) ? Tennessee?s unemployment rate for July rose to 5.9 percent, up from June’s adjusted rate of 5.6, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development said Thursday. The rate remains above the national unemployment rate for July at 4.8 percent, which is up from the June rate…

Rock Island resident and White County native Magdalene Bennett, 77, was born Oct. 4, 1928 and died Aug. 17 at River Park Hospital following an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Church of God of Prophecy, she was the daughter of the late James and Minnie Luna Roberts. She is survived by…

KENTON, Ohio (AP) It was intended to be a prank: steal a decoy deer, place it on a country road and watch as motorists swerved to avoid it. It ended with two teenagers suffering serious injuries when their car hit the decoy and rolled into a ditch. When a judge ruled this week that two…

The best home cooking traditions not only get passed down from generation to generation, but they also get ?adopted? into other families. Emilio Ortega?s family, for example, enjoyed the benefits of his fascination with green chiles when he moved to New Mexico in 1890. When he returned home to California, he and his family started…

By Margaret hobbs Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Ellen Wolfe drives her carriage in last year?s Cannon Carriage Classic coming up in Woodbury Aug. 26. The 14th annual Cannon Carriage Classic will be held Aug. 26 at Cannon County?s Valhalla Farm. The Woodbury carriage driving show has grown to be very popular with spectators…

Southern Standard readers are invited to extend happy birthday and anniversary best wishes to friends and loved ones through this weekly column. Please submit your messages by our noon deadline each Thursday. No more that three wishes to any individual, please. Happy Birthday Wishes: Aug. 14 ? Happy birthday Uncle Allen Poss. Love, Bo and…