Countries are often judged by the way they treat their children, so the fact that the richest country in the world - the United States of America - has one of the highest, if not the highest, child poverty rate of all developed nations does not reflect well upon us.
What a pleasure it was to watch a real president give a truly thoughtful address to Congress, America and the world on Wednesday night.
It used to be that we called the weeks and months running up to Election Day - any election day - the silly season. Now we just call all of our days the silly political season.
We often lament that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Surely Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is confused.
Trust in police and our justice system is a tenuous thing right now.
It is so disheartening that too many people in Tennessee - and in fact in most "red" states - still seem to be allowing themselves to be wagged by political dogma as they shrug off COVID vaccines and other simple protections.
Chattanooga has new opportunity today after electing a new mayor and three new council members to breathe new life into its cast of leaders.
On edge as we all are, it is increasingly disconcerting to watch the clips of the Derek Chauvin trial in Minnesota while even more police-involved deaths and assaults continue to play out across our nation - even one at a school on Monday in Knoxville.
If one shocker of our COVID-19 pandemic era has been the enthusiastic embrace of fixing up our homes, a second and related shocker has been the skyrocketing cost of lumber.
