David Cook: Building downtown for everyone
Debbie and Sam McKinney opened their kitchen stove. The inside - dark, without a working stove bulb - looked like it was moving. As if it was alive, but nightmarishly so.
Cook: Questions for Rick Smith
Cancel your plans. Lie to your boss. Take an early lunch.
David Cook: The Future at Orchard Knob Middle School
Two Saturdays ago, Jacalyn Long, 14, was walking across the Middle Tennessee State University campus on a fall day so crisp it could crunch when she saw a vision of her future self.
David Cook: Notes from a rape
Note to parents: Go check your kid's cellphone. Or Facebook. Just check. Just ... check.
David Cook: Fracking comes to Tennessee
This morning in Nashville - 9:30 CDT; it's a public meeting - the Tennessee Oil and Gas Board meets on the 17th floor of a Church Street building, where six men will vote on approving standards that would allow for one of the most controversial methods of energy extraction today.
Cook: Long, slow shooting of Keoshia Ford
The bullet that was fired on a tragic March night into the head of 13-year-old Keoshia Ford, leaving her comatose, took milliseconds to travel from barrel to brain.
David Cook: The Theory of Paul Smith
Today, juniors at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will walk into their class - Human Behavior in the Social Environment - and be asked to explain the behavior of the one man behaving more like Archie Bunker than the leader of local Democrats.
David Cook: Legal pot or Dr. Seuss?
Legalize them.
David Cook: Happy New Year
Earlier this week, Times Free Press staff writer Holly Leber collared me and business reporter Ellis Smith into a lunchtime adventure: to the Walnut Street Bridge to toss bread crumbs into the blue-green river below as part of the Jewish ritual known as the Tashlich ceremony.
Cook: Your soul or your wallet?
My son has been studying the Titanic. Especially the sinking. He learned how many died (about 1,500), the age of the youngest survivor (2 months) and the number of eggs brought on board (40,000).