Cook: How global can our local be?
Come June, let's give every last one of our Hamilton County seniors a graduation gift.
Cook: If it takes a village, this is the square
Not long ago, some teachers at Red Bank High were trying to figure out why certain parents never attended school events. Not parent-teacher conferences. Not open house. Not anything.
Cook: Let’s build what love looks like
Before we talk resurrection, let's talk tombs.
Cook: The love of the long distance runner
Are you a runner?
Cook: Friends in high places
I was driving around the other day, with the brown dog riding shotgun, listening to the classic country station on the radio. A Merle Haggard song came on. It was his 1969 anthem, "Okie from Muskogee."
Cook: What happens at the rink stays at the rink
We went ice-skating the other day, which is really to say we went ice-falling.
Cook: The film to put in our time capsule
Not long ago, Robert Winslow, 25, came home to Chattanooga after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College with an idea stirring in his mind.
Cook: Rick Smith will be the man of ’15
Since being named Hamilton County Schools superintendent more than three years ago, Rick Smith's leadership has had characteristics similar to a yellow caution light: steady, safe, more inclined to slow down than speed up.
Cook: The sad, bad and beautiful of 2014
2014?
Cook: A curtain call for creativity
One evening in the early 1950s, Sy Berger came home from work, sat down at his kitchen table, and changed America.