If you're a Fox News watcher - and in Tennessee and North Georgia many people are - you missed a moment and a speech that someday will be the stuff of history books. You missed American patriotism rising to the moment.
A caller to our office Thursday morning was incensed that one of Tennessee's senators, Marsha Blackburn, left the chamber where she is a juror in the Trump impeachment trial to give a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
In today's insult-driven, hate-filled and fear-mongering world, it's too easy to find outrage in the least things.
There's been a lot of talk among pundits about "vulnerable" Republican Congress and Senate members in the election year of Trump's impeachment.
Last summer, our community was shown a long-awaited efficiency consultant's report on Hamilton County's school buildings, and the finding was stunning: Our 74 public schools carried a $1.36 billion capital needs price tag.
The Hamilton County school board was right Thursday to opt for hiring up to 10 of its own security officers for some campuses - despite reservations from the sheriff, who said he would rather see the district arm teachers or school staff members.
Every time we learn new information from people like Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who worked with the president's personal attorney on the effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate a 2020 campaign opponent of President Donald Trump, "it always points in the direction that Trump was putting his interests above America's security and election integrity."
Is it any wonder that too many Americans don't know what to believe anymore?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week will again sharpen the focus on the impeachment of President Donald Trump. And on the future of our democracy.
While we wait on dithering politicians to make our world safer, and as we watch with horror while our president unravels both himself and the world, there are some patriots who could - and should - speak up to make a difference.
