Opinion

“Late at night when it’s hard to rest/I hold your picture to my chest/ and I feel fine, I feel fine/But it’s a rainy night in Georgia…” – written by Tony Joe White and performed by Brook Benton I need your input. I know this is a terribly personal question, but which songs make you cry? And why? (And would you be miffed if you suddenly, inexplicably started receiving spam emails for Kleenex and Visine?)...

To the editor, On May 23, when we have almost 100,000 Americans dead from coronavirus, Donald Trump was out playing golf at his Virginia resort.  All we can conclude from this is he was celebrating the deaths of all those people.  This is a man who claims he cares about the American people yet doesn't even have respect enough for others to wear a mask.  He must think he is some beauty with the orange hair, white circles around his eyes, and orange face.  He looks more like a clown than a president.. ...

We always start with each of our communities in mind, but this spring of 2020 united us all in the Middle Tennessee region served by Motlow State Community College. We unite behind the success of our students and for workforce development. We unite because, in times of adversity, Tennesseans support each other. The beginning of this pandemic offered no clear roadmap, but Motlow has persevered and completed an unprecedented 50th year...

To the editor, With 2020 election only 7 months away. I think it is time to look at both party’s history and policies. Most Americans think the Democratic party as progressive, and forward thinking. However, it never was that way. The truth behind the Democratic party is one of racism and corruption; the party condoned slavery, started a civil war, opposed reconstruction after the war, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynching, and fought the civil rights act...

To the editor, In response to the writer regarding me, Bobby Fanning gripes too much. I see now she goes to the depths of her concern with my personal feeling when in reality she likewise does the same in her love and admiration for a president who has been impeached, lies, and shows how he will act f anyone disagrees with him in any matter. I need not go into the depths of this we all know how he acts...

To the editor, I have been an ardent follower of politics most of my life, ever since my father and I watched the Watergate hearings and Richard Nixon's subsequent downfall and resignation in disgrace in the 70's. I have seen good leaders, bad leaders, watched their minions fall by the wayside in both political parties, as the nation always survived and marched into the future. ...

To the editor, As a subscriber,  I want to thank you for your newspaper’s excellent coverage of the terrible Covid-19 outbreak in your community.        I am 100% sure that your newspaper's coverage and your editorial regarding this health crisis in Shelbyville/Bedford County played a major role in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration’s decision to not hold its annual “Spring Fun Show” event on May 21-23, 2020...

To the Editor, Those of us that had the pleasure of going to a barn dance can still hear words called out to the people dancing. “One step forward and one step back, step to the right and step to the left, take your lady and turn her all about.” Yes, that was some good entertainment and it always made me dizzy. The Mike and Bubba Trump show has become an entertainment, and it will make you dizzy if you watch it long enough...

There are lessons to be learned while living and working as a journalist within a pandemic. One thing I have learned is that that there are some people who likely wouldn’t make good partners if ever stranded on a desert island. Of course while I would choose to be with my family, you don’t always get that choice. So I thought a lot about the people I would and would not chose to become my “Wilson.” (From Tom Hanks’ movie “Cast Away.”)...

To the editor, I am writing this pertaining to Bobby Fanning of Tullahoma writing something all the time in the paper about Trump. (Keep it in Tullahoma.) Trump showing charts, maps and video clips were shown because the Dems had been saying he hadn’t responded quick enough, that he wasn’t doing his job...

To the editor, President Grim Reaper is at it again with his miracle cures.  His hydroxychloroquine cure proved to be extremely dangerous so now he is telling us to inject or orally insert disinfectants into our bodies.  He also wants us to insert ultraviolet light.  These are the "cures" this fake doctor is promoting to cure covid-19.  He is like a mad scientist turned loose in Frankenstein's lab...

By Wednesday this week, 117 people in Bedford County had tested positive for COVID-19. The number of cases is currently doubling every four days in Bedford County. The Tennessee State Health Department confirmed on Wednesday what everybody here already knew. There are a lot of workers at Tyson who have contracted this deadly viral infection...

To the editor, Community means neighbors, family and friends, church and school. It means where we work, the stores where we shop, the restaurants where we eat and where we go to enjoy a little fun. It’s the everyday moments, and probably the things I’ve taken for granted, that make me proud to be a member of this community.  ...

To the editor, During this past week the American people witness President Trump performing in front of the TV cameras about how he has handled the Coronavirus pandemic. What was supposed to be a daily or weekly briefing about the coronavirus has become a platform for Trump to use as a campaign platform. ...

To the Editor, It has now been about two weeks since the publisher of this newspaper, Adam Johnson, wrote an opinion titled Farce Majeure. It is an piece on the coronavirus. Force Majeure is an act of God; it is also used in legal agreement between parties, where in case of unforeseen circumstances, no party is held liable. ...

To the editor, There is only one person who has worked in the Trump administration with whom I have ever agreed and that is former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.  When Tillerson called Trump a moron he hit the nail on the head. We can fully see that Trump's handling of the response to the coronavirus pandemic is terrible.  He knew about problems with the virus in late December, 2019.  He didn't get serious about it until late March, 2020.  The gap between those dates allowed the virus to spread rampantly and he did nothing to get medical supplies to the states.  He claims he stopped people from coming from China, yet we know over 400,000 came in after he closed the country  to those from China.. ...

To the editor, I know it is going to be a challenge to my right-wing friends on what to do with the $2 trillion socialist program money coming to us. This is not the first socialist program money that we have received in the last two and half years. ...

To the Editor, I was a small child when America went through WWII. Today, I’m almost 82 and hearing news about the war we are facing now. TV has replaced radio, with Walter Winchell and Walter Cronkite. Where, once we listened, we now watch. We watch people we know, and those we don’t, dying before our eyes and hearts. Today the Corona virus is at war with the whole world...

To the Editor, In these times that we are in, times of darkness and uncertainty, the church has not been called to be rebellious.  It is not time to raise our own personal flags.  Our governor, our president, says no gatherings of over ten people.  I know that many of God’s people are saying that the government doesn’t rule us God does.  As a minister I have seen that we don’t see scriptures clearly.  The Bible says to obey them that have rule over you.  I’ve also seen that the Christians that struggle with authority over them usually have a hard time obeying the Holy Spirit, forgiving, paying their debts, raising their children according to scripture, being kind to their neighbors, and also treating their bodies as a temple of the Holy Ghost.  So please don’t try at this moment to be a supernatural warrior just be a great example of King Jesus.  . ...

As the coronavirus pandemic plays out I am, unfortunately, being reminded of an age-old adage — poverty is a fatal condition. With coronavirus, however, we are also learning that people who work in some jobs are not going to be protected. Workers are getting a message: the companies they work for may be deemed “essential” but they, the workers, are expendable...