Editorials

I'll be honest, I could not foresee that Ed Sheeran or Macklemore would ever be a topic in the Soapbox. As I hear more frequently from the more experienced generations these days, "we must be in the end times."
If you don't know who they are, Sheeran is a British pop music singer and Macklemore is a past-his-prime rapper. They were both involved in what's being called free-speech suppression, but that's not the case at all.

Something I've heard more times than once over my four decades in the newspaper business is that newspapers should print more good news. We don't control what happens, we just cover it to make sure you, our readers, are well informed.
This week's edition is packed full of good news due to so many great things happening. Seldom are there weeks where there are such a smorgasbord of good happenings!
I figured this makes for a good time to use my column space for some more good vibes since we're on a roll this week.

Dear editor:
As Paul Harvey said, here's "The rest of the story."
Nashville recently lost a genuine kind-hearted community champion recently, Lee Roy Jones.
Lee Roy and I became like brothers.
Due to my infirmity, I was unable to get to the podium to speak at his funeral. I hope, in this letter, to relay how much he meant to me, and to Nashville.

Dear editor: AI is powerful, it can be used for good or bad depending on who is in control of it. That is why it makes more sense to me for the United States to lead the way instead of communist China.
In my humble opinion China is responsible for a lot of negative propaganda being feed to Americans about the down side of AI, and there are some down sides. Why the negative buzz from China? So, we will reject it, and they will advance it and control it.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic in October of 1978. Three members of the Nashville Police Department received certificates upon completion of the basic 240-hour recruit training course required by the state for all law enforcement officers. All were among the top five percent in the class, taught at Nash Technical Institute, and one, Sandra Pridgen, with a 98.9 average, ranked first in the class of 50 students.