Sohn: Is TVA locking the South out of the future?
Tennessee Valley Authority in August adopted a budget plan to help reverse rising electricity prices, but it's a complicated hope. And depending on who you ask, perhaps an unlikely one.

Tennessee Valley Authority in August adopted a budget plan to help reverse rising electricity prices, but it's a complicated hope. And depending on who you ask, perhaps an unlikely one.

After weeks of impeachment weariness, Thursday's Democratic debate was a welcome ray of sunshine and hope.

So it's done. Or at least half done. President Donald John Trump has been impeached. It will be the first line of his obituary. But it likely won't be the last shame he brings on this great country, his party and himself.

It has long been said that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Don't we all long for someone - better yet, a group of someones - who will promote more transparency in political fundraising, lobbying, elections and ethics enforcement?

Let's hope Santa and his elves and reindeer are good swimmers and won't mind a greener Arctic landscape.

Sometimes, people just need a little bit of help. Or help that would seem little to most of us, yet to them it's the difference between lying alone on the floor all night or calling 911 for stronger arms to get them back on their feet or into a chair.

Here we are. House Democrats on Tuesday morning unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump - abuse of power and obstructing Congress in the investigation of his behavior involving Ukraine.

The Justice Department's inspector general report, released Monday, finds that the FBI's Russia probe was both justified and unbiased - completely debunking Trump's accusations that political bias was behind the probe and that former bureau leaders conspired to sabotage him.

The Kingston ash spill left an indelible memory on Tennesseans after a towering wall holding toxic coal ash from TVA's Kingston power plant sent a tsunami of sludge spilling onto about 400 acres of the Emory river and rural residential land in Harriman in 2008.
