Opinion

To the Editor: Our "Heroes for Hunger" are the sole reason for the overwhelming success of the 2019 Shelbyville Community Soup Kitchen Fundraiser Dinner. Collectively, and without hesitation, you stepped up and bought table sponsorships, provided amazing baskets and delicious desserts to be auctioned, you donated monies, served our guests, decorated tables, you gave of your musical and auction expertise... ...

To the Editor: In May 2019, The IPCC reported on a study of global warming to 1.5O C. This is about .5OC above current warming levels of 1OC (2OF). Using the latest climate change pathway model, this study predicted that the 1.5OC level of warming would occur between the years of 2030 and 2050. ...

To the Editor: I would like to respond to Dawn Hankins’ column of Oct 5th, “Bible belongs in school.” In it, she laments that the Bible is not displayed in schools, and of course longs for Christian teachers and principles to lead as disciples of their faith...

It’s National Newspaper Week — a good time to remind all that, yes, news“papers”, whether you read us on the printed page, a mobile device or a computer screen, are still relevant in the 21st century. We’re loved by a few, damned by many and questioned by an increasing number who are gradually — through no fault of their own — losing the ability to distinguish between unbiased news reporting vs. opinion pieces...

Thursday was National “Bring Your Bible to School Day.” I’m smiling. How about you? This day was not set aside to be a “my denomination is better than yours day.” It’s merely an annual time when Americans have the freedom to take the Bible into public schools...

To the editor: Schools in Bedford County are back in session and thanks to the generosity of so many people no student should be without proper supplies for the school year. A big thank you to everyone who helped United Way of Bedford County collect more than 10,000 individual items, enough to fill 152 boxes with useful school items...

We're sorry, but there are 374 people ahead of you in line for our one copy of the eBook you've been anticipating all year. This is the message Tennessee libraries will be forced to relay to readers of eBooks published by Macmillan Publishers this fall...

To the Editor: The Trump people who write to the Times Gazette love to blame liberals for every problem there is in this country. They never once will admit that Donald Trump and his cronies have done more damage to America than the liberals have ever done...

To the Editor: Mark Hendrickson recently wrote an article for Epoch Times that is reprinted by AMAC (with permission), that needs to viewed by every American. "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." -- Ronald Reagan...

To the Editor: It appears that some states cannot be trusted to clean up their voter rolls without being taken to court. Judicial Watch (JW) has taken Kentucky to court recently. There were 250,000 notices sent out for clarification on current addresses. ...

To the Editor: We should join with the other numerous states that have passed the national popular vote interstate compact. The president should be elected like other offices and be the person who gets the most votes throughout the entire country. Everybody's vote should matter...

To the Editor: About five years ago, after Judicial Watch's investigation uncovered evidence of Islamic terrorist infiltrating the USA through Mexico, a captured ISIS fighter is providing details of a plot in which jihadist enter the country at the southern border. ...

What are you concerned about within your county? I hope at least in some part it's local schools. Everyone's a stakeholder in the education process. I suggest reading "Budget 101-A Citizen's Guide to the Budget." As boring as that might seem, it's a free document from Bedford County Board of Education featuring a wealth of school data...

To the editor: Has the Democratic Party gone too far left for minority Americans? Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television and one of the nation's first African-American billionaires, recently said in an interview on CNBC that the Democratic party had lurched "too far left for him", by embracing higher taxes, runway government spending, and socialist schemes, like the New Green Deal. ...

To the Editor: Is it time to reconsider and legally scrap sanctuary cities? Politics seems to destroy rational thoughts and side step common sense, intimidates good people from doing the right thing and gets policies off track. Common sense is described as a mixture of logic, evidence, experience, and history. Our law makers have clearly lost common sense. Case in point is sanctuary cities. They make no sense and we should say so loud and clear...

For nine years, Tennessee Department of Education has invited educators to complete Tennessee Educator Survey (TES). The 2019 results, a mixed impression of state education, were recently released. This year, the state received its greatest response. To break it down, 42,068 teachers and a couple thousand school administrators offered their opinions...

The Tennessee Court of Appeals in a ruling on Friday, Aug. 16, put much-needed limits around the so-called investigative exemption that has been used by the state to cloak otherwise public records. “We hold that public records created in the ordinary course of business, which are non-investigative in nature, and which are otherwise accessible by Tennessee citizens under the TPRA (Tennessee Public Records Act), do not subsequently become exempt from disclosure because of the initiation of a criminal investigation in which those records become relevant,” the Court ruled in Scripps Media, Inc. ...

To the Editor: The US Capitol Visitors Center opened on December 2, 2008 to serve as a visitor center and as a museum. The center cost the American people $621 million dollars. It is the anti-religious left's vision of America. On the opening of this structure, all references to faith and God had been carefully, deliberately removed from its photos and historical displays...

To the Editor: I want to take the opportunity to thank the excellent staff at our hometown medical facility, Tennova Healthcare-Shelbyville, for a really positive experience during my recent medical procedure there. With Dr. Monajjem handling the surgery and Dr. ...