Cook: Jed Mescon and the discipline of kindness
In times like these, it is important to recognize and praise those who resist such distortion, and instead encourage our better selves. Like Jed.
Cook: The transformation of one of Chattanooga’s most dangerous men
In the mid-1990s, Darrius Higgins may have been the most dangerous man in Chattanooga.
Cook: All the things a test cannot assess
It is difficult to put into words the Keystone Cops-ian farce that is TNReady.
Cook: The one-in-a-million love story
On a pleasant fall afternoon in 2011, Charles Adamson, a local builder, dropped by his ex-wife's Cleveland, Tenn., home to pick up their daughter Lauren for an afternoon together.
Cook: Rowdy activist loved by Chattanooga’s poor moves away
Last week, Chris Brooks, a local activist loved by the poor and despised by the rich, left Chattanooga for good, moving to a leased apartment in New York City.
Cook: Violence Reduction Initiative is not the problem
VRI is taking a lot of shots right now, but don't read this as one of them.
Cook: The people’s history of Chattanooga
Think you know history? Our history?
Searching for Scout
One year ago this week, under heavy February skies, our dog went missing.
Cook: Chattanooga’s athletic Steve Jobs
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Cook: Neglect and NoogaPoor
Why did the Unity Group boycott Monday's MLK Day parade, the very parade it has sponsored for more than four decades?
