Cook: Finding common ground
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer."
Cook: Are we there yet?
The other night over dinner, we started talking about a summer vacation. Someone suggested driving to Florida to swim with the manatees.
Cook: PK’s unpaid bill
Finally, PK Management, which owns the currently uninhabitable Patten Towers, dusted off the corporate checkbook last week and wrote five checks to local aid agencies that have been caring for displaced towers residents after the May 28 basement fire.
Cook: Chop wood, change diapers
We like beer, but we're no Homer Simpson.
Cook: American conscience
The last time Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson was arrested, the 28-year-old mother was handcuffed and carried off the ground by police - one held her arms, the other her legs - out of a Nashville legislative committee room, where she and six others had come to do all they could to block passage of laws that would weaken labor unions in Tennessee.
Cook: The devil you know
Do not bomb Syria. Do not send weapons to Syria. Do not interfere with Syria.
Cook: A bustani grows in the city
Bustani.
Cook: The Tower of idle
Before the basement fire that scattered them across the city, folks at Patten Towers did a lot of sitting. An awful, awful lot of sitting.
Cook: Winking at freedom
This whole freedom thing? No one ever said it would be easy. You want easy, move to North Korea.
Cook: First to fall, last to get up
We take pride in what we do. - Joyce Walker, PK Management