Cook: Reopening debate: Can we be safe, healthy, employed and free – all at once?
May 1 will not only be a reopening. It will be a sacrifice and gamble, a very big game of Hamilton County roulette.

May 1 will not only be a reopening. It will be a sacrifice and gamble, a very big game of Hamilton County roulette.

Not long ago, walking through our garden, I found a nest of pine needles and twigs, domed together like a little hut in the southern corner of a rectangular planter, where mint grows each summer.

Did we just save 3,000 lives?

No one is coming to save us.

Well, this isn't the birthday we imagined for you.

I broke down. A few days ago. I was doing something small around the house, so small I won't even mention it.

This, too, shall pass.

On Monday, Lauren Robinson Neal looked at her pots of orchids - red, white, and pink blossoms exploding from green stems - and declared that they, and she, had seen enough of winter.

Yes, I'm voting.

It is time we memorialize the five Chattanoogans - five African American women - shot in an act of domestic terrorism in 1980.
