Stephen Yeargin

I cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a major city in our country going for up to a week without electricity or safe water. Our thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Houston (particularly one family) and the surrounding area as they begin the long road to a return to normalcy.

Right after the closing bell sounded on Friday afternoon on Wall Street, government regulators announced that they were shutting down the operations of Silver State Bank of Nevada. Bank failures are announced after trading ends on a Friday because it inevitably would lead to an industry-wide sell-off. In 2007, three banks failed. With more than [...]

Sports analogies run rampant through our society, often trivializing big moments and minor setbacks. We will say that a speaker “knocked it out of the park” when they receive a standing ovation or say that he or she “fumbled” when a joke is met with uneasy faces. But I am a sports fan, and cliche [...]

The Subway inside a convenience store down the street from work always has a “Help Wanted” sign tucked behind the sneeze guard. According to the nightly news and climbing unemployment, it is probably a fairly uncommon sight to see these days. The woman who manages the business (or at least, the only one that works [...]

I took some time this afternoon to read and watch Sen. Barack Obama’s policy speech on race in America. With the events of the past few weeks it comes as no surprise that his campaign wanted to take a closer look at this issue, and based on the contents of the address, it was a [...]

As is often the case with a more Internet savvy generation of reporters, it does not take long for a controversial topic to find its way into the mainstream media channels. The case of a video purporting to show a United States Marine in Iraq tossing a puppy off a steep slope is no exception. [...]

There is a lunar eclipse going on right outside our door, but the apartment building is facing away from the moon. The United States Navy is shooting down a spy satellite too, although I think that will be impossible to see from any vantage point in Nashville. It is cold out, as I learned after [...]

With the “Super Tuesday” primary coming up, I am offering my endorsement to Barack Obama to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. My search for a candidate to support was not incredibly difficult, and I knew that Obama had the inside track since he announced his decision to seek the nomination. [...]

Like most machines, vehicles require a fair amount of preventative maintenance to stay in good working order. Some things should be checked more often than others, like tire pressure and oil level. This is amplified in older vehicles because there are often systems within that age unevenly, causing even the slightest shake or noise to [...]

Tonight, The History Channel premiered 1968 With Tom Brokaw, a two-hour synopsis of a year that upended the social and political landscape of the United States and arguably the world. From the Vietnam war, the student protests, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy to the Apollo [...]