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Linda Alessi
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Linda Alessi: It’s much better to embrace light

Light is the answer. To what you may ask? It is the way to see what is around you. It takes you out of darkness. Knowledge is light, faith is light and hope is light. The light at the end of the tunnel is cliché, but the aspects bring us to Updated Yesterday at 7:00 PM

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Matt Masters: Into the ‘Red Zone’

Editor’s Note: The following guest column was written by Matt Masters, a freelance photographer and correspondent for The Lebanon Democrat who lives in Murfreesboro, about his own investigation into the Colonial Pipeline gasoline leak Updated Yesterday at 3:00 PM

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Preacher's Point

Tim Johnson: Have you wondered why America has changed?

Have you ever wondered why America has changed? As an example, going back to my parent’s generation, divorce was rare, and sex outside of marriage was taboo. Decades ago, I can remember my mom telling me about her youth and saying, “I wasn’t that Updated Sep 23, 2016 at 7:00 PM

Devin Webb
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Devin Webb: Patience in the process

Beginnings, when embraced as an opportunity, can be invigorating. They can also be daunting and overwhelming. Either way, they usually require a lot of work. Beginnings can be chosen and they can also be imposed because, quite often, an ending is Updated Sep 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM

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Thumbs of the week: Here’s to 10 more years with Music City Star rolling

Thumbs up to the Music City Star, Tennessee’s first and only commuter train, which celebrated 10 years in operation at Riverfront Station in downtown Friday evening with music, ice cream and a lot of political notables form Updated Sep 23, 2016 at 4:30 PM

Jim Mullen
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The Village Idiot

Jim Mullen: Weight, weight – Don’t tell me

““The sweat was pouring down my back, my feet were sore,” my friend Evan was telling me. “I was ready to drop from exhaustion when the timer on the treadmill finally hit 30 minutes and started to slow into cool-down Updated Sep 23, 2016 at 4:00 PM

Sinclaire Sparkman
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Sinclaire Sparkman: The power of purging

We all have nasty feelings and hidden desires. Being born and bred into a world of nastiness starts us off on the wrong foot, inherently. The heartache we go through, the trauma that transpires, it often leads to the manifestation of those Updated Sep 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM

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National View

Phil Valentine: The snake, and who’s willing to kill it

It’s interesting how history has placed the right person in the right place for the right job. Ronald Reagan wanted to be president in 1976, but it was not yet his time. It’s amazing how different the circumstances were four years later and the Sep 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM

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Your Views

A letter from Ward Malisch

To the Editor:

Updated Sep 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM
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Reading to kids was an entertaining experience

This week, I got a chance to read to some of the pre-kindergarten youngsters over at Sam Houston Elementary School in Miss Officer’s class as part of Imagination Library Week.

Updated Sep 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM
Shelly Barnes
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Shelly Barnes: The benefits of exploring the world around us

In today’s busy world, we are pulled from meeting to meeting, stressed about answering our emails, text messages, browsing Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and every other social media site. We run through fast food on our way to and from events, Updated Sep 21, 2016 at 7:00 PM

Ruth Correll
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Ruth Correll: Wilson Master Beef Program set to begin

The University of Tennessee Extension, Wilson County announced an upcoming Master Beef/Advanced Master Beef Producer program. This program will meet the requirements for either Master Beef or Advanced Master Beef certification.  

Updated Sep 21, 2016 at 6:00 PM
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Letter to the Editor: The spin. Quotes from Hutto at the Aug. 29 commission meeting

To the Editor:

Updated Sep 21, 2016 at 4:00 PM
Byron York
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National View

Byron York: Addressing terror, Clinton plays it safe, Trump promises bold change

The terrorist bombings in New York and New Jersey, which injured 29, and the terrorist stabbings in Minnesota, which injured nine, were nowhere near as serious as the terrorist shootings in Orlando, which killed 49, and in San Bernardino, which Updated Sep 21, 2016 at 4:00 PM

Xavier Smith
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Xavier Smith: So what’s the real issue? Part II

About a month ago, Colin Kaepernick became the poster child for everything wrong with this country when he decided to kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality and murdering of unarmed black citizens. 

Updated Sep 21, 2016 at 12:00 PM