Stephen Yeargin

By the time you read this, there will be little to add to the conversation. The U.S. House voted to pass the Senate bill from November, effectively assuring that a year of tumultuous debate on the proposal will be drawing to a close once the President signs the measure in the coming days. All the [...]

Four years ago this week I was sitting in a hotel room near Emory University watching the Winter Olympics and celebrating what ended up being one of the high points of my collegiate career. Another newspaper staffer was sitting next to me as we watched an athlete (her name is irrelevant) fall victim to what [...]

Samantha called me Friday after we had met up for lunch to let me know a rock had chipped her windshield while driving back to work. No big deal, I thought. We will just get it repaired and move on. So around noon on Saturday, a mobile repairman visited us at the apartment complex to [...]

It is going to be difficult to not get caught up in the moment of the coming week. Polls, politicians and pundits have cluttered the news landscape with statistics and opinions. George W. Bush will end his presidency as the least popular on record. The economic outlook is bleak for 2009. The bank bailout has [...]

This past month has had numerous occasions for tears. Very few of which have been my own, but rather others’ expressions of joy and sorrow, hope and hopelessness. Take for example a young lady telling a story of how their group had donated food, clothing and toys to a family that had lost everything in [...]

I hear this a lot from co-workers and other acquaintances: “The news is just so depressing these days — I hardly ever watch it or read the papers.” It is easy to see where they are coming from with the recent acknowledgment that the United States has been in a recession since last December. I [...]

We are now 24 hours removed from the start of the loud countdown to the west coast poll closings at the bar last night. I will take down the sticker on my site some time before the weekend and go back to my normal routine of keeping politics out of polite conversation. While I have [...]

Greetings from the Flying Saucer in downtown Nashville! We are here tonight to watch the United States elections play out on the world’s stage. You would think it was the Super Bowl for as many people that have crammed into this room to stare at a television. The first returns have started to flow in, [...]

It has been called “the most important election of our time” by both presidential campaigns and countless commentators. Whether this mantle has been earned might be up for debate, but it certainly has helped the network news improve its ratings among the core marketing demographics. The frenzy of the campaign has been an ongoing story [...]

I have tried over the past few weeks to overlook the market reports and the ongoing talk of bailouts and failing banking institutions. After all, you and I likely are not changing our plans dramatically even though the Dow dropped into four figures for the first time in five years. Charts tell a harrowing story. [...]