Cook: The Other Side of the Super Bowl, Part Two
Stop by the house this evening and it will all be there: the TV, the packed sofa, a Visigoth spread of beer and bread. We'll trash-talk and cheer as little trails of Velveeta run down our chins.
Cook: The other side of the Super Bowl, part one
We are three days away from the biggest sports event in the known universe: the Super Bowl.
Cook: The false freedom of legal marijuana
Dylan sang that everybody must get stoned.
Cook: Through rain, sleet, snow and half of the 20th century
For the past 50 years, Dennis Holland has been a civil servant, a man of the people. Drafted by Lyndon Johnson, he spent time in the U.S. Army, then returned back home to Chattanooga to begin his life's work with the U.S. Postal Service.
Cook: Moving forward on memorials to honor Johnson and Blount
A week ago, I wrote of the possibility of installing a marker, plaque or sign on the Walnut Street Bridge in memory of the two black men - Ed Johnson and Alfred Blount - lynched from the first two spans more than 100 years ago.
Cook: How to lose 14,000 times and still win
Red Klotz died.
Cook: 1,000 foot long water slide coming to downtown Chattanooga
This summer, on July 25, a water slide that's as long as three football fields is coming to downtown Chattanooga.
Cook: A welcome center by and for VW
Haven't we done enough for VW?
Cook: Why some Chattanoogans won’t walk across Walnut Street Bridge
What is justice for Ed Johnson?
Cook: The more, the mightier, the black middle class
In the past several years, city leaders, planners and thinkers have made a concerted and strategic effort to recruit and retain certain groups of people to Chattanooga.