Opinion: Our tri-state region’s connection to the Jan. 6 violence
Jan. 6 has become a day so tragic that it - like 9/11 and the Dec. 7 - will remain both known and infamous simply by date alone.

Jan. 6 has become a day so tragic that it - like 9/11 and the Dec. 7 - will remain both known and infamous simply by date alone.

Poor Marjorie Taylor Greene.

It wasn't enough that Tennessee's right-wing and wrongheaded leadership tried at every turn to handicap practical preventions for COVID-19, the increasingly insidious virus that even in the brief periods when it has waned has changed our lives.
This is the time of year when everyone begins looking for a crystal ball. Or a Ouija board. Or both.

We had hopes of waxing happy about a new year beginning brightly for us on Jan. 1, 2022.

We all need help sometimes. Because life is good at throwing curveballs. Especially this year and last.

It is Christmas 2021, and it feels different this year.

In good and bad ways, this has been a catch-up week in our region, with some things long ignored at last being resolved, or at least refocused. Meanwhile, one other thing - COVID-19 - has roared back to remind us we've not made anything like enough progress on the practical preventions we've known we needed but continued to ignore.

Across Hamilton County, home to 374,826 residents, just over half of us - 53% - have received full vaccinations against COVID-19.

Got some last minute gift-giving to attend to?
