Sohn: All politics are local – especially when it comes to voter turnout and a census count
If you've ever doubted that all politics are local, read on.

If you've ever doubted that all politics are local, read on.

If Gov. Bill Lee and the National Rifle Association have their way, Tennessee will become a state that might as well make its new label something like, "Tennessee - where we let you shoot first, and we'll ask questions later."

It seems far too early to call it panic - the fact that every conversation spoken or overheard in recent days at some point includes a mention of coronavirus.

Surely Harvey Weinstein never expected to find himself handcuffed and led off to a jail cell.

Remember when the juiciest follow-the-money stories about President Donald Trump were his six bankruptcies? Gosh, that seems like a 100 years ago. Now we run out of fingers counting the serial money scandals of our 45th president. Here's a laundry list to help put this wheeling, self-dealing presidency into perspective:

We've seen the ruinous effect of President Donald Trump's placement of a de facto Roy Cohn - William Barr - at the top of the Department of Justice. And we're about to see that same kind of ruin with Trump's appointment of propagandist Richard Grenell as acting director of national intelligence.

Now that was a debate.

While Donald Trump rode "the Beast" limousine around the Daytona 500 track on Sunday - ostensibly to connect with "real Americans at Daytona," real Americans in Chattanooga had been turning out to vote during the Volunteer State's first days of early voting for the 2020 Super Tuesday primary.

We're hearing so much talk about Bernie Sanders and that boogeyman "socialism," and there is so little time to stop the nonsense before the elections of 2020.

There is good news and bad news about climate change and our adaptations to it.
