Loss of Shay is telling
The firing of Jason Shay speaks volumes about the mindset of many people of East Tennessee and the administration at ETSU as well.
The fans reaction to Coach Shayâs kneeling with his players in displaying total disgust with law enforcementâs brutality on black people was an act of love for his players. They kneel because it has been shown over and over again that the police will escalate the situation to get their own adrenaline charge going when they deal with minor situations with black people. They have been seen on film going all the way up to murdering unarmed black men.
Protect horses from meat trade
The horse has served us for centuries. They carried soldiers into war, pulled covered wagons out west, plowed our fields, helped in roundups, were our transportation pre-auto.
So you would think they would be revered for all the service given? Not so. Todayâs horse is nothing more to the âMeat Menâ than a profit for the slaughter of 100,000 horses a year to end up in restaurants in Japan and France. The killing of horses has been forbidden in the U.S. since 2007. They are now sent to Mexico and Canada for brutal slaughter.
No horse is safe from abuse; old race horses, retired carriage horses, injured horses from rodeos, soring and âtrippingâ events, drug production, neglected and abused pets, wild horses rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management. Torture by any other name is still torture!
Letters: What do you think about a whitewater park in Elizabethton?
With our Question of the Week, we asked readers for their thoughts on a proposal to build a whitewater park in one of the rivers passing through Elizabethton. Here are some of the answers we received.
Outdoor recreation adds quality of life
I think this is an awesome project. Rafting on the Watauga is a wonderful family experience and would be an ideal river to end that trip with a big finale.
Locals and tourists would really benefit from this addition. We have a few success stories in the area already; the investments in the Tweetsie Trail and the Tannery Knob bike park have managed to add a ton of value to this community and will only get better with time.