By now, even those of us who've sequestered ourselves in our homes for weeks to shelter against COVID-19 know that Joe Biden himself - not just his campaign - has denied a former aide's claims that he sexually assaulted her 27 years ago. Biden emphatically says of Tara Reade's allegation: "This never happened."
We all breathed a sigh of relief when President Donald Trump and his administration finally said they would use the Defense Production Act to ramp up orders for tests and medical supplies in the fight against COVID-19.
Thursday afternoon's State of the City address by Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke certainly wasn't the one he'd envisioned giving as his last major pronouncement in eight years as the city's highest elected leader.
While Tennessee and Georgia, along with some 29 other states, are in the throes of reopening even hands-on businesses such as barber shops and salons, Congress instead is listening to medical experts.
Once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, COVID-19 has turned out to be a much more formidable foe for us.
While Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and other Southern red states are running hair-on-fire toward reopening commerce in the face of a pandemic - seemingly at the sharp tips of protester signs - too few of us have been looking at who and what is actually behind these protests.
Minutes after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee began his Friday news conference to talk about his plan for a "slow, measured, stepped approach to reopening Tennessee from its three-week stay-at-home order, The number of America's COVID-19 deaths edged past 50,000.
Whither, Joe Biden, you might ask. He's present. And he's talking.
Tennessee's COVID-19 cases climbed above 7,000 last week - without the benefit of the results of all of the 11,000 drive-through tests taken in the state last weekend.
Hillary Clinton was right. There are deplorables, and about 150 of them lined the Chief John Ross Bridge on Market Street on Sunday to protest what they said are attacks on their constitutional rights in the government's actions to stop the spread of COVID-19.
