Sohn: COVID-19 is the enemy, not mask mandates or vaccine requirements
How, exactly, are mask mandates "overreach" or "government control," but mandating that there can't be mask mandates isn't overreach or government control?
Sohn: The needed help Sens. Hagerty and Blackburn would take from us
Just make note of it: Tennessee Sens. Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn voted against the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill to rebuild the nation's deteriorating roads, bridges and water pipes, as well as fund new climate resilience and broadband initiatives. Likewise, Alabama Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Richard Shelby said no.
Sohn: Masking up in schools is a must. And on the first day, not after it’s too late.
Sometimes the answers to our quandaries seem so obvious we wonder why anyone sees a quandary in the first place.
Sohn: The bad, worse and better news on climate change
How many towns do we need to see burned into oblivion? How many Greenvilles and Paradises in California? How many Detroits, Blue Rivers, Vidas, Phoenixes, and Talents in Oregon? How many Maldens in Washington state? How many Gatlinburgs and Pigeon Forges in Tennessee?
Sohn: Rent relief? What rent relief? States tangle pandemic help in red tape
Follow the money - if you can.
Sohn: Real leaders find COVID solutions, not cow solutions
While hypocritical Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee gives a thumb's down to incentivizing vaccines in Tennessee but is happy to reward cattle farmers for incentivizing bovine vaccines, real leaders are stepping up to help our city, state and country move past vaccine hesitancy and make us all safe again from increasingly dangerous variants of COVID-19.
Sohn: Tell government to mandate vaccines and masks. It’s about public health, not politics
Our new COVID-19 cases are surging so fast and furious this summer that they are "near identical" to those last summer and younger, unvaccinated people - including children who aren't yet eligible for the shots - are getting sicker than what we saw last year.
Sohn: It was a good week for America, a tough one for Donald Trump
Who is that masked man we thought was Mitch McConnell until he voted last week for the bipartisan infrastructure deal?
Sohn: Gov. Bill Lee’s rejection of crisis help caused senseless harm to people
Remember when Gov. Bill Lee in May announced Tennessee's withdrawal from federal unemployment programs - part of the first COVID-19 pandemic stimulus intended to pay unemployed Tennesseans an additional $300 a week in benefits as well as additional $100 weekly for mixed earners?
Sohn: Science was right. We should mask up and get vaccinated.
In a case of science-told-us-so, COVID-19 has come roaring back - especially in the largely unvaccinated South. Tennessee and Georgia, with less than 40% of residents fully vaccinated, are no exceptions.