Cook: Five flags and Veterans Day
Behind every flag, a story.
David Cook: Give us our daily bread, please
Just finished planting garlic in the front-yard garden. I ordered two kinds from the seed catalog: a creamy softneck variety called Susanville, and a hardnecker, Duganski, with bulbs that are purple and eccentric. I call it "The Vegetable Formerly Known as Garlic."
Cook: Money in the streets, how to interrupt violence
Remember the crime drama "Catch Me If You Can?" Leonardo DiCaprio played a real-life check forger so adept and expert that, when the FBI finally caught him, they didn't lock him away, but rather made him one of their own.
Cook: The lost boys of Chattanooga
If gang violence in Chattanooga began in the late 1980s or early '90s, then we are now seeing the second and third generation of gangbangers in our city.
Cook: 25 years, 41 lessons, one city
Every three months for the last 25 years, Pete Cooper, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, has written and submitted a quarterly report to his board of directors.
Cook: The amazing grace of Kelly Gissendaner
Tuesday night, as the I-75 traffic roared by, Kayla Gissendaner sat in a truck stop booth, away from the window.
Cook: Georgia plans to kill a good woman
The cop, the death row inmate and the plea for mercy
Cook: Superior Creek Lodge situation is a crisis on top of a crisis
The situation at Superior Creek Lodge is a crisis on top of a crisis.
Second Hamilton County commissioner Marty Haynes pledges to return discretionary funds
Hamilton County commissioner Marty Haynes announced on Monday afternoon that he plans to return his discretionary funds to the county's general fund.
Cook: The dream deferred in Chattanooga
In 1939, authorities with the federal agency known as the Homeowners Loan Corp. unrolled a map of downtown Chattanooga, then, using a scale of five different colors, graded each neighborhood as to whether it was worthy for real-estate investment or if it wasn't.
