Sohn: Chattanooga has challenge, opportunity for new City Council
Chattanooga has a strong mayor form of government, but we've seen over the years that our nine-member city council has plenty of sway - sometimes helpful and sometimes not.

Chattanooga has a strong mayor form of government, but we've seen over the years that our nine-member city council has plenty of sway - sometimes helpful and sometimes not.

Chattanooga has had a hard year, as has our country. But here in the city of many names - the Dynamo of Dixie, Scenic City, Environmental City, Gig City, Best City Ever - we augmented our year of COVID-19 and virus recession with an Easter tornado and a summer of protests.

"Tucked inside President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan is a seemingly radical notion that children should not grow up in poverty."

President Biden won't have time to watch his predecessor's second impeachment trial as it begins today, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told us Monday.

Help is on its way

The only thing outnumbering Chattanooga's mayoral candidates this year may be the dollars spent on each vote they will eventually garner next month.

What should we make of the secret Republican vote in which 70% of the House GOP members voted to keep Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney in her role as third-ranking minority leader despite her vote to impeach the former president?

The trial brief filed Tuesday by House impeachment managers argues the obvious: That Donald Trump's actions on and leading up to his Jan. 6 incitement of a mob that stormed the Capitol were "a betrayal of historic proportions."

Carter Godwin Woodson is given much of the credit for Black History Month.

While the GOP fringers whisper QAnon baloney to one another and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy kisses the ring of a disgraced former president now twice impeached, Joe Biden stayed steady last week in the Oval Office resetting American norms.
