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The Union Flag was a newspaper in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way at the time. April 24, 1890: According to The Comet, “Gov. R.L. Taylor returned last week from Boston and New York where he had been in the interest of East Tennessee. He and C.S. Brice and other millionaires are interested in a scheme that means big things for this section.” April 24, 1898: With a dateline of Johnson City, the Chattanooga Daily Times reported, “The stockholders of the old Johnson City Ice Factory are making efforts to have the plant started at an early day. The plant had to close severa...

Justice Democrats jump into 2022 primaries with Tennessee House race endorsement Justice Democrats, the progressive group that launched Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s historic 2018 campaign, made its first splash of the 2022 midterms on Monday by endorsing Nashville activist Odessa Kelly as she kicked off her Democratic primary challenge to longtime Tennessee Rep. Jim Cooper. Kelly is the co-founder and executive director of Stand Up Nashville, a labor-aligned coalition of community groups. If she were to defeat Cooper — a centrist first elected in 1982 and now in his 10th term since ret...

Ag Crime Unit Steps Up Citations For Off-Road Users In Areas Of State Forests Thursday, March 11, 2021 Prentice Cooper State Forest hiking trail damaged by off-highway vehicle use in unauthorized area. The Tennessee Department of Agriculture’s (TDA) Agricultural Crime Unit (ACU) is teaming up with the Division of Forestry (TDF) to elevate enforcement of state forest regulations. The increased law enforcement activity centers around misuse by off-highway vehicle (OHV) and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) users in the state forests. A particular area of concern is land in and around Prentice C...

By Ray Hill As 1945 came to a close, the Second World War had been won by the Allied nations. Adolf Hitler had shot himself in his underground bunker as the Red Army overran his capital of Berlin. Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, had been executed by his own people and strung up by his heels at a filling station, along with the bodies of his mistress and several compatriots where their corpses were abused by angry citizens. The Japanese Empire had crumbled with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, who was co...

Robby Starbuck—A New Kind of Republican Candidate Commentary “New leadership must be found and, in the tradition of Trump, we should be free to look outside the political class, just as our founders hoped. “In fact, that should be a hallmark of this renewed Republican Party, bringing forth candidates from all contributing walks of American life. “New perspectives will work to the benefit of all. In actuality, conservatives are the more natural innovators—as Trump demonstrated in the Middle East, for example—liberals and progressives the conformists.” Little did I know… well, t...