Sohn: East Chattanooga rising, getting jobs boost
Patience is a virtue, goes the maxim. And we're seeing patience have its day this week at what has become known as East Chattanooga's Tubman site.
Pam’s Points: See how climate change is changing us
Around the country and here, hundreds of thousands of young people poured into the streets Friday for a day of global climate protest.
Sohn: Looking for answers in murky water
To say that Tennessee American Water obfuscated its responsibility to give Chattanoogans answers and confidence in their water utility's trustworthiness last week is being kind.
Sohn: Get set for election interference 2.0
It was inevitable. With a president like Donald Trump who knows no ethical boundaries, it was inevitable that we sooner or later would be looking at quid-pro-quo election interference 2.0.
Sohn: What is Erlanger board thinking?
Just seven days ago, we received some kudos from community leaders for our editorial observation last week that Erlanger's plan to name a new CEO so quickly - at its regularly scheduled Sept. 26 meeting - was ill conceived.
Sohn: Decoding TennCare waiver ‘flexibility’
Tennessee on Tuesday became the first state to put forth a plan to turn Medicaid into a block grant - an idea long supported by conservatives to reinvent (some say rupture) the federal government's 50-year-old agreement with states to pay for safety-net insurance for the poor.
Sohn: Our water crisis needs answers now
"At American Water, we keep life flowing."
Pam’s Points: What we want vs. what government does
"Restricting voter registration drives in order to try to preserve election commission resources is like poisoning the soil in order to have an easier harvest."
Sohn: The Constitution’s emoluments clauses are pick-pocket prevention. We should use them.
Does it feel OK to you that Vice President Mike Pence's taxpayer-funded stay ($600,000 just for ground transportation) at a Trump-owned golf club in Doonbeg, Ireland - some 180 miles and a 40-minute flight from the location of his official doings about Brexit in Dublin - lined President Donald Trump's pockets by way of the Trump Organization?
Sohn: Forget pundits, watch presidential debates for yourself
Most of the pundits writing and talking today about Thursday's Democratic debate must not have been watching the same debate we watched.
