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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

'God Rains On The Just And Unjust'

McMillin on the road

Let's hope Zack stays safe out there covering the tornados in Tennessee. His stories are stellar. Read them here and here: The saddest hillside in Gibson County was clogged with the remnants of a young family's life, blown away by Sunday night's deadly storm.

A mounted deer wedged under a fallen tree. A stuffed bear, still able to chirp, "Time for the bear, cha cha cha." A purse, glittery and multi-colored. Diaper bags. Children's sneakers.

"Hey, Mama," Ashley Austin yelled out from near a huge tree that had been peeled and filleted into some monstrous sculpture, "I found a video camera. You think it's got anything in it?"

Ashley and her mother, Tammy, spent two grim hours Monday foraging through what appeared to have been a thicket of woods behind the property that had belonged to Tammy's cousin, Brad, and his family.

Maybe that video camera held images of 5-year-old Tyce Taylor's first T-Ball game, played just Friday.

Maybe it showed his father, 28-year-old Brad, hoisting his latest trophy animal.

Or maybe it showed the whole family together in their big house -- 29-year-old Tanya and 3-year-old Kyle with Brad and little Tyce -- before a powerful tornado barreled onto the ridge and took their lives.

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