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Opinion: National media finally seeing the light of truth on the country’s economic recovery

by Pam Sohn ·August 16, 2024

It's hard for a lifelong member of the media to be mad at the media.

Photo/Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times / Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in Bedminster, N.J., on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024.

Opinion: Re-elect Yusuf Hakeem to Tennessee House

by Pam Sohn ·July 11, 2024

Early voting starts today for the Hamilton County general election and state primary election. Voters going to the polls between now and July 27 and on Election Day (Aug. 1) have some important choices to make.

Staff photo by Matt Hamilton/ Tennessee state Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, speaks at an event at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center that honored former state Rep. JoAnne Favors.

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Opinion: Kisha Cheeks is best choice for Hamilton County Circuit Court judge seat

by Pam Sohn ·July 10, 2024

Let's just be clear. There are not enough women or Democrats in our local and state politics, and especially not enough in our courtrooms.

Contributed photo / Local attorney Kisha Cheeks is running for a Circuit Court judge seat.

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Opinion: The Chattanooga Times endorses Crystal Boehm and Felice Hadden for Hamilton County School board

by Pam Sohn ·July 10, 2024

The noise surrounding our national politics can overwhelm citizens and cause them to disengage from all politics.

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Opinion: Chattanooga Times endorses school board candidates Tammy Barnes, David Kelman and Jill Black

by Pam Sohn ·July 9, 2024

Suffice it to say the partisan labels our Tennessee legislature has insisted school board elections now carry — Democrat, Republican or independent — shouldn't, and actually don't, matter.

Opinion: Trump’s ‘landslide’ in Iowa? Put some context to it

by Pam Sohn ·January 22, 2024

According to reporting, Donald Trump took the Iowa Republican Caucus by landslide and storm.

Photo/Katelyn Metzger/Quad City Times via The AP / Despite below-freezing temperatures, caucusgoers gather to cast their vote for a Republican candidate at Central High School on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, in Davenport, Iowa.

Opinion: History will not be kind after Republican legislators’ cowardly moves to expel two Black House members

by Pam Sohn ·April 7, 2023

Odd as it may sound, I'd like to thank the Republican members of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Nicole Hester/The Tennessean via AP, File / From left, Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, state Rep. Justin Jones and state Rep. Gloria Johnson hold their hands up as they exit the House chamber doors in the Tennessee state Capitol building in Nashville on Monday, April 3, 2023.

Opinion: I don’t like goodbyes. How about ‘Thanks, and until later’ instead?

by Pam Sohn ·January 28, 2023

I don't really know how to say goodbye. But I must.

Staff file photo / Then-Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Pam Sohn leans against a container on the refueling floor of the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in January 2012 during a TVA tour in which the refueling process was explained.

Opinion: Budgetel had to be closed but Silverdale is fine?

by Pam Sohn ·January 24, 2023

We noticed last week that Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp, who said she couldn't unsee and couldn't unsmell some the things she saw at the Budgetel Inn when she carried East Ridge's petition for closure to Criminal Court Judge Boyd Patterson, might need glasses.

Staff file photo / A van arrives at Silverdale Detention Center in Chattanooga in 2020.

Opinion: Affordable housing needs still real for Budgetel refugees

by Pam Sohn ·January 23, 2023

The Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition is now covering the cost of 18 hotel rooms for families displaced from the Budgetel Inn.