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Opinion - Columnists
Cleaveland: Suicide prevention is everyone's responsibility
A phone conversation with our 15-year-old granddaughter reminded me of how far we have come in our awareness of suicide.
Elliott: The Cross on the Chickamauga Battlefield
On the Chickamauga Battlefield the gravel Vittetoe Road, now closed to vehicle traffic, runs along the base of the hill...
Good Deed: Good Guys Moving & Delivery comes in handy
Someone once said, "life's short and furniture is heavy."
Cook: Hamilton County and the medicine of black moral witness
The more I think about it, the angrier I get.
A Baby Boomer's glossary of Gen Z lingo; it's all good
When carpooling kids, I've learned to not insert myself into their conversations.
Loftin: State GOP leaders try to weaponize voter registration
When the General Assembly passed a controversial voter registration law earlier this year, Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett and...
Hart: Virtue signaling easier than solving real problems
Democrats long have tried to cloak themselves in self-aggrandizing, high ideals. They talk about issues that do not exist or...
Levine: It's the environment, stupid
The GOP is determined not to be upended by Sharpiegate.
Kennedy: Hand-built pine coffin built with $71 in Lowe's plywood memorializes a frugal, self-sufficient life
When she was young, Abigail Tulis and her late grandmother, Marianne Tulis, were frequently travel companions.
Greeson: Tennessee leaders happy to include fewer and spend more on elections
As Americans, one goal we should all share is how to make our voting process as easy as possible.
Greeson: ABC asking for questions is fine; let's hope for honest answers from Dems debate
In a couple of days, the trimmed herd of Democrat candidates for president will take the stage in the next...
Cook: Black protest, white silence and the future of a sheriff
In July, a group of 50 suit-and-tie African-American preachers, ministers and supporters stood outside the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, declaring...
Robbins: Livingood writes about the Chattanooga area before the American Revolution
Dr. James Livingood, professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, wrote about events before the American Revolution...
Carpenter: Study confirms value of pre-K investment
Vanderbilt University researchers, together with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, have released a new working paper with major implications...
Cleaveland: Rocketry - from weapons of terror to space exploration
Seventy-five years ago, on Sept. 8, 1944, Nazi Germany launched its first V-2 rocket against England. The missile struck London,...
Good Deed: Nonprofit donates wheelchairs to Parkridge Hospital
Scenic City Friends, a 50+ nonprofit organization of men and women volunteering at Parkridge Health System, recently donated two new...
Greeson: Crazy start to full football weekend, TDOT message, obit observations and Saturday stars
This will be the first full football weekend - high school Friday, college games Saturday and the NFL on Sunday...
Kennedy: Five reasons to avoid houses with wooded lots
I remember when we bought our house on a densely wooded lot on Walden's Ridge. When I asked the previous...
Hart: College football, 'bread and circuses,' is back - and now serving beer
It is an exciting time in the South. When summer's heat subsides and there is a nip in the morning...
Ford: If zoning rules don't fit, just pretend they do
I went to the Aug. 12 meeting of the Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission, which reviewed the application of developer...
Greeson: Wal-Mart's bullet backtrack leads to important questions
Walmart is no longer selling bullets for handguns. The superstore super power is taking other steps in terms of selling...
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Kennedy: It's never too late for medical school, even if you haven't been to college
Midlife career changes have become a 21st-century cliche.
Cleaveland: How many people can Earth support?
In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric and scholar, published anonymously a pamphlet, "An Essay on the Principle of...
