Cook: Don’t let this good idea go to waste
Got a minute? Then go put your head in a trash can and look around.
Cook: Welcome to…Chattanooggaa?
It seems there have been two stages of our late 20th and early 21st century growth.
Cook: It’s time to ditch plastic straws
Earlier this week, for a few glorious hours, I was like Kim Kardashian.
Cook: The Black Panthers and Chattanooga
A Chattanoogan whose life was as crucial, if not more so, to our American democratic story.
Cook: City Hall fails transparency test on mayor’s Interagency Council on Homelessness
From the very beginning, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke promised open and transparent city government.
Cook: Chattanooga, meet the young men of 2029
Last Saturday, as their parents pushed back dinner plates and settled into their chairs, 66 young men from across this city - nearly all of them African-American or Hispanic - stood shoulder to shoulder near the front of a Highland Park gymnasium at the end of their weekend retreat and recited - no, shouted - one of history's most epic poems.
Cook: Building the bridge that won’t collapse
Were we to try and build a bridge yet ignore the laws of the physical world - gravity, tension, motion - then our bridge would undoubtedly collapse.
Cook: The church of the lawn-mowing servants
Soon after Dianne Whitlow lost her husband, she began to lose her yard.
Cook: A man for our time: The life of John P. Franklin Sr.
Late one night many, many years ago, the telephone rang inside the home of John and Eva Jim Franklin.
Cook: Stop comparing Trump to Hitler
Days ago, as Americans raged against immigrant families being separated at our southern border, former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden did what many have done before: He compared Trump to Hitler.
