Gough hates Affordable Care Act and idiots, but can’t say why
Kenneth Gough’s column (“ ‘Useful idiots’ will be made to pay for Obamacare”) in Sunday’s paper was highly successful in expressing a negative opinion about the Affordable Care Act, but failed...
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Kenneth Gough thinks people who want and sign up for insurance through the Affordable Care Act are “useful idiots” because they are responsible and want health insurance for themselves and their...
View ArticleNews about VA facility
I have been buying the Johnson City Press for over 40 years. A good newspaper keeps us informed and preserves our freedom. I find it very difficult to keep buying a newspaper that gives me full pages...
View ArticlePC, ACA and USA
After reading letters on Dec. 10, I had to go back and read Dennis Prager’s column again. To the two people who wrote calling Prager a liar and a bigot, I have to ask: “What?” I see the usual pattern...
View ArticleOff the Wall News: No use crying over spilt milk ... lots of it
NORWALK, Ohio — The Sandusky post of the state Highway Patrol is investigating a single-vehicle commercial tanker rollover crash that occurred at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on Ohio 2, just west of U.S. 6 in...
View ArticleLaw for all
Politicians have become very personal. They say you can keep your old husband, old wife, old girlfriend, old car, the dog if you have one, but your old health insurance policy has got to go. The...
View ArticleUnicoi Co. Animal Shelter's new task: Find 2 new countywide animal control...
UNICOI — Early into Tuesday’s meeting of the Unicoi County Animal Welfare Board, board Chair Kari Pfaender recounted what she said to Erwin town officials after they voted Monday to approve a proposal...
View ArticleLazy politicians
If both (political) parties remove all the people on their payrolls who are doing no work, our national debt will shrink a few billion or quadrillion dollars.MARTHA S. CULPJohnson Cit
View ArticleCouponing 101: Digital Couponing
One of the easiest ways to coupon is digital couponing. There’s no clipping, organizing, or remembering to take the coupons. Digital couponing requires store loyalty cards and the Internet. It is...
View ArticleIntercity’s ‘Nutcracker’ dances into Kingsport
Intercity Ballet of Kingsport will feature a cast of more than 140 dancers and actors in its 34th annual production of “The Nutcracker” this weekend.School performances are scheduled for 9:30 a.m.,...
View ArticleHealth Education Series at Bristol Public Library: Anxiety & Depression
Thursday, December 12, 7:00 pm - 9:00pmOn December 12 at 7 pm there will be a presentation of the popular Health Education Series “Anxiety and Depression” by Dr. Tim Urbin. Already well-known to the...
View ArticleU.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander places chief of staff on leave amid child porn...
NASHVILLE — U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander said Wednesday he has placed his chief of staff on leave after learning the staffer's home was being searched as part of a child pornography...
View ArticleReader Photo: Sad Santa Sidney
Sid looks so sad in this picture maybe because he has been a bad boy and will not be getting a new bone under the tree! ———The Grinch turned his dog, Max, into a reindeer. Have you done the same?If you...
View ArticleSW Virginia man charged with 2nd-degree murder in death of 2-year-old girl
ABINGDON, Va. — A 28-year-old man has been arrested in the death of a 2-year-old girl in 2012. Gregory Matthew Marlow, 13269 Fall Hill Road, Abingdon, has been charged with second-degree murder...
View ArticleSullivan highway commissioner retires amid Tennessee Bureau of Investigation...
BLOUNTVILLE — Sullivan County's interim highway commissioner is retiring from his post, while the district attorney's office confirms an investigation into alleged improprieties within his...
View ArticleVerdict: Jury finds Roan Mountain woman not guilty of second-degree murder
ELIZABETHTON — A Carter County jury found Danita Whitehead not guilty of attempted second-degree murder and the lesser included charge of voluntary manslaughter on Wednesday. Judge Robert Cupp...
View ArticleOff the Wall News: Handcuffed woman at large after stealing patrol car
UNION CITY, Ga. — Police in Union City say they're searching for a woman who was handcuffed when she stole a patrol car.Authorities say the woman was sitting in the back seat of the patrol car early...
View ArticleInside job: Police say employee helped burglar get into Johnson City mall store
Police say a Johnson City mall burglary was an inside job. Two local men were arrested Wednesday on charges that they burglarized a mall store where one of the two worked. Glenn E. McCroskey, 21, 1114...
View ArticleJohnson City man charged with auto burglary
Johnson City police charged a 22-year-old Johnson Avenue man Tuesday with stealing a purse, cell phone and wallet from a woman's car.Corey Michael Culler, 909 Johnson Ave., was charged with auto...
View ArticleWould-be robbers remain at large after Unicoi home invasion
UNICOI — Officials with the Unicoi County Sheriff's Department are continuing their search for two men who forced their way into a Unicoi home on Monday evening with the intent of robbing the...
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