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Tom and Pat Gish owned The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Kentucky, since 1956. They created a great local paper that also changed the nation.
After traveling from Ohio to Iowa, Richard Longworth has written a jeremiad and now dives in with an effort to globalize the Midwest. Reviewer Tim Collins argues that government needs to be part of this moving picture.
It's hard to tell if the backing of Hank Williams, Jr., or Colin Powell has much impact on voters today, but there's no doubting what put Fess Whitaker in office.

Two Tennesseans, transplanted in California, strike media gold with an old shtick: the bumpkin who speaks the out-rednecking-rageous truth.
Crystal Springs, Mississippi, was once the nation's tomato hub. Two visitors suggest how to make its homegrown museum -- and others -- more delicious.
For all its country music history, Knoxville might have been "Music City U.S.A." And now with the Blue Plate Special, broadcast live, it's tugging at the title again.