By Charles W. Johnson A drawing shows two sidewalks leading to a central area of the courthouse park. A new art display will be placed at the southeast corner of Warren County Courthouse and will feature a mini-park with benches, stone walkways and decorative landscaping. The dedication and unveiling of this mini-park ‘ complete with…

By Duane Sherrill Celebrating Christ’s resurrection from the grave after His crucifixion, Easter has long been the holiest day in all of Christianity. The entire year of Christian worship is arranged around Easter. The day observed as Easter changes yearly and is based on a historical timeline which places Easter on the first full moon…

By Charles W. Johnson Corker The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that one of 14 new outpatient clinics it plans to open across the country this year will be located in Warren County. U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, along with U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis, received notification Thursday of VA plans to open…

Letters to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: What in the world are the people who run this city thinking? They want private money to pay for the street improvements? Where did we get this city administrator who wants the people to pay for street improvements? Royce Davenport and Bobby Kirby think it’s a great idea…

By Charles W. Johnson However you stand on the Second Amendment guarantee of the ‘right to bear arms,’ the fact remains that guns, and gun legislation, have been very much in the news lately. Whether we like it or not, guns have played, and are still playing, a major role in our society. So it’s…

By DIANA WEST As a conservative in no way comforted by the Clinton-Obama-Pelosi-Reid rhetoric on the war in Iraq, I should have taken heart from the president’s fifth-anniversary remarks revisiting the Battle of Baghdad, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the thrill of Iraqi elections, the perfidy of Al Qaeda terrorists, the Anbar Awakening, and the…

By Thomas Vaughn ‘Does race still matter’? That was the vexing question posed by a recent U.S. News and World Report cover story on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The gist of the story was that Obama may be changing the face of race in politics. ‘With his increasing appeal to a wide assortment of…

By Ric Edelman In the late 1990s, on an almost weekly basis, I warned listeners of my radio show against buying technology stocks. In fact, in our financial planning practice, we never bought Internet, dot-com or telecom stocks for our clients. Although we took a lot of flack in 1998 and 1999 for this stand…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ It’s been almost an article of faith: Any recession this year will be mild and brief. But now the stunning meltdown of a top Wall Street investment bank and stubbornly persistent financial market turbulence has called that into question, raising fears that severe problems in housing and the nation’s bedrock financial system…

By Bruce Williams DEAR BRUCE: My father recently remarried a year after my mother’s death. He has an ironclad (so he says) prenuptial agreement. He is pretty savvy, so I don’t doubt it. His new wife is independently wealthy and has no reason to want his assets. He has recently been put under hospice care,…