Today's Opinions

Spring snows are so funny. No one runs out for milk and bread. It just sort of appears in the air, always making us feel colder.
I checked the Old Farmer’s Almanac and it was off by a week. Looking into April and beyond, I don’t see the word snow mentioned again, but “wet and cool” gets a lot of ink.

The adage “all is fair in love and war” is true, and the Anderson County Fiscal Court should remember that business is a subsidiary of the latter.
Government, regardless the size, cannot dictate fairness any more than it can dictate morality, including the fiscal court’s ongoing and painful attempt to make its business license ordinance “fair.”
That was the goal when magistrates spent more than an hour last Tuesday trying to rewrite the ordinance that requires most, but not all, businesses to purchase a license.

In a German town about 4,000 miles away, Chelsea Schedler analyzes Lawrenceburg cul-de-sacs.
Researches the county’s curved roads (iconic design unique to subdivisions, Chelsea says) that double back to marked entrances.
Studies American suburban home floor plans essentially worshiping, in Chelsea’s words, “the sanctity of the automobile.”
They say write what you know.
Chelsea, an architecture student and intern living in Germany, dissected what she knew — Lawrenceburg.