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Editorial: Boy, it’s a good program — Scouting at work on its second hundred years — thank goodness
One of America’s best youth organizations is celebrating 100 years of service in 2010, and everyone should be happy it has survived this long.
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Editorial: To our health — New hospital shining example of what cooperation, good will can mean
The crowds who jammed onto the campus of LeConte Medical Center last week during open house are an indication of just what this new hospital means. It’s been a long time coming. A county of 80,000...
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Keeping Arrowmont where it is presents a difficult challenge, dilemma
It’s hard not to get the impression that Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts has one of its proverbial feet already out the door — the door being Gatlinburg. Based on the material it sent out on...
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Three Cheers Feb. 6, 2010
Triumphant Quartet has a lot to be singing about There’s a famous axiom in the music industry that goes like this: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.” If that’s the ...
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Editorial: Answering ‘Who Dat?!’ — most UT fans will likely be pulling for Peyton, Colts on Sunday
On Sunday night in Miami, New Orleans Saints fans at Super Bowl XLIV and all across the Big Easy will chant as one nation, “Who Dat?! Who Dat?!”
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Editorial: A road paved in gold — $52M to settle Road to Nowhere dispute seems like a good deal
Paying a county $52 million not to build a road sounds like one of those odd government programs, like paying farmers not to grow crops or paying out billions to banks whose own flawed and greedy ...
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Editorial: Hang in there — Highway 66 torn up now, but finished product will be a delight
It was inevitable that the widening project on Highway 66 (Winfield Dunn Parkway) in Sevierville was going to create some difficulties for businesses along the route. You can’t widen a road from t...
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Editorial: Snow loses again— less than predicted, but even what we got wasn’t enough to stop our routines
You expect to get snow in eastern Tennessee every winter, but relentless snow? Not really. January may go down as the snowiest month most people have seen in their memories. Hard to know for sure,...
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Editorial: Don’t avoid the Spur — detour causing minimal traffic woes, so make that trip to Gatlinburg
Officials are doing a terrific job keeping the traffic flowing smoothly on the Spur. Headed to Gatlinburg? No worries, no delays. The detour is only a mile or so long and won’t hold you up hardly ...
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Banning all smoking on new hospital campus the right thing to do
The news that the five entities which own Knoxville area hospitals will ban smoking by employees on their campuses was welcomed and appreciated by all who have often wondered why a facility devote...
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