Haslam, Roe should support expanding Medicaid coverage
I have been a physician in East Tennessee since 2004. I watch honest, hard-working people struggle to make ends meet every day. I love my job and the patients I serve. The oath I have taken to “first...
View ArticleKudos to WCEDC
I appreciate your consideration in allowing me to correct an inaccuracy in the comments that close out the article, “Commissioners discuss downtown, zoning, business recruitment at lengthy meeting,”...
View ArticleMill development
As a frequent visitor to the downtown area, I am very much in favor of rezoning the General Mills property and tearing down the ugly eye sore that exists there now. I feel that this could only...
View ArticleDrug inspection
If you didn’t hear Diane Rehm Show on WETS-FM on Feb 20, you missed an issue of medical safety that raises troubling national security problems. As extremists cut back government roles and attacked...
View ArticleCancer awareness
At the request of Fight Colorectal Cancer, the Colon Cancer Alliance and myself, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has declared March 2014 to be Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.At first glance, this...
View ArticleDealership shifts to new look
The owners of a Johnson City vehicle dealership officially turned the key on their building’s renovations Tuesday evening, inviting community members to kick the tires on the new digs.Andy Dietrich,...
View Article'Good News' page features nothing but
While the Johnson City Press runs good news on a regular basis, we have decided to dedicate a specific page for 'Good News' to run every four weeks. Here is a smattering of the items running...
View ArticleElizabethton Planning Commission denies mobile home park
ELIZABETHTON — Conflicts between developers and neighbors in two separate areas highlighted Tuesday’s meeting of the Carter County Planning Commission.In one highly contentious dispute, the planners...
View ArticlePaula Deen to open eatery in Pigeon Forge
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Paula Deen's comeback trail is leading her to the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee.The Savannah, Ga.-based celebrity cook announced Wednesday she's opening a new restaurant, Paula...
View ArticleEric Myers' Man of the House - Stress? What Stress?
When I left my corporate job for this role of being an at-home parent, I remember anticipating that my stress level would go down. After all, I figured, "What stress can there be in caring for a...
View ArticleKentucky snake handler death doesn't shake belief, still popular in East...
Three days after pastor Jamie Coots died from a rattlesnake bite at church, mourners leaving the funeral went to the church to handle snakes.Coots, who appeared on the National Geographic Channel's...
View ArticleBucs' Harris going through emotional ordeal
East Tennessee State basketball coach Murry Bartow went to Nashville on Wednesday to represent the team at the funeral of Hunter Harris’s father.The senior forward found out at halftime of the North...
View ArticleBartow credits new assistants in turnaround
The East Tennessee State basketball coaching staff has been a man down all season, but you wouldn’t know it.Coach Murry Bartow and first-year assistants Bob Bolen and Thomas Carr have produced a team...
View ArticleArizona governor vetoes bill that would have legalized discrimination against...
PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday vetoed a Republican bill that set off a national debate over gay rights, religion and discrimination and subjected Arizona to blistering criticism from major...
View ArticleOff the Wall News: Man wears 'Breaking Bad' T-shirt in mug shot after arrest...
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago man accused of operating a methamphetamine lab appears in his booking photo wearing a T-shirt from the television show "Breaking Bad."Daniel Kowalski's mug shot shows him...
View ArticleDeveloper pulls rezoning request for mill property
North Carolina’s Evolve Development has pulled from the City Commission’s March 6 agenda its request for a third and final reading to rezone property off West Walnut Street for a $18.5 million...
View ArticlePublic stepping up to adopt abandoned dogs
With a wet kiss goodbye to Washington County-Johnson City Animal Shelter Director Debbie Dobbs, a temporarily unnamed mixed Shih Tzu was sent off for a last veterinarian check-up before leaving with...
View ArticleThe little restaurant that could: Tupelo Honey still thinks it can open soon
Renovations are chugging along at Johnson City’s historic CC&O Railroad Depot in preparation for the arrival of Asheville, N.C.’s Tupelo Honey Cafe, but the opening of the restaurant has again been...
View ArticleCloudland girls capture 1-A region title
AFTON — Two Courtneys trumped one Mendy in the Region 1-A girls’ basketball championship.With big games from Courtney Wilson and Courtney Clarke, Cloudland took a 46-42 win over North Greene on...
View ArticleUpdate: 4-year-old boy dies from injuries after I-26 crash
KINGSPORT — An early afternoon crash on Interstate 26 claimed the life of a city woman and a 4-year-old boy Wednesday.Officials say the wreck occurred at about 12:45 p.m. in the westbound lane at mile...
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