Two years after a financial crisis threatened to close its doors, Virginia Intermont College has raised nearly $12 million and won back unqualified accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

I got to hang around for opening day of Kidsfest at Dollywood. And when I say, hang around, I mean that literally!

Such a pity that the death of Farrah Fawcett was reduced to a pinhole footnote in the news.  Many of you read my rave about her recent television special wherein she chronicled her struggle with the cancer that eventually won out. 

After starting her career as a living breathing Barbie doll, moving toward legitimate acting credits, then reemerging in Playboy and later, in a cheesy reality show on TV Land called Chasing Farrah, the final word is this:

For price and selection, I always get the best deals when I wait until now to plant annuals.

Pestilence and plague: it’s all in good fun.

An increasingly vocal group of Americans seems to feel freedom is in peril, not because of an ominous threat from an overseas power, but because of the powers-that-be in the nation’s Capital.

I just started reading Glen Beck’s new book Common Sense. 

Wow.  This is good stuff.

Whenever I find a book I really enjoy, I can’t wait to pass it on to someone else to read.  So I figured this time, with this book, who better to pass my copy on to than one of my fellow political junkies on the blog?

So if you would like to have my personal copy of Common Sense – written by Beck, inspired by Thomas Paine – read on…

Joe Meade defeated Carlson Cox on the second playoff hole to win the Glenrochie Invitational on Sunday

Johnson City Police Dept:  Most Wanted June 29, 2009

My journey with the airlines