My hair is uncharacteristically long these days.

On Friday, July 31, hundreds of local Republican leaders attended an annual fundraiser at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

Who knew that being a former band geek would one day come in handy.

Editor's note: When the Trump administration ordered hospitals to report COVID-19 data to the Department of Health and Human Services rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as they had been doing, it provoked worries from public health experts.

More than 100 vaccines to address the COVID-19 pandemic are in various stages of development.

One hundred years ago, opposition forces faced off in Nashville, Tennessee, over the issue of women's suffrage, with the right to vote for 50% of the nation's population hanging in the balance.

Sisters Phoebe and Avery Gilligan surprised each of the residents of Morning Pointe of East Hamilton, Tennessee, with a handmade butterfly door-hanger.

Trying to atone for his pawing, sniffing and allegedly assaulting women over the years, and fearing the far left, Joe Biden announced (when he was behind in the polls) that he'd pick a woman as his vice president. The day has come.

I asked a friend — she's Black — what John Lewis meant to her. "Hope," she said.

The March day I walked into the Chattanooga News-Free Press building looking for a job as a copy boy in 1968 was very different from the day I retired from the Chattanooga Times Free Press earlier this year.

Last week in this space I put out an SOS.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an infodemic, a vast and complicated mix of information, misinformation and disinformation.

Seventy-five years ago, in August 1945, a radical, new era in warfare began with the first use of nuclear weapons.

Once more we'll don our hiking boots and walk across history at another Hamilton County cemetery that reminds us that the patriots of the American Revolution lived and are buried among us. Pvt. Thomas Palmer rests at the Conner Cemetery in the Birchwood community in Hamilton County, sharing the site with another Revolutionary veteran, William Jefferson Moore. Today, we'll spend some quality time with Palmer.

The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga recently received a donation from the Hamilton County Education Association to support COVID-19 relief efforts in the county's hardest-hit communities.

Maybe this coin shortage thing should tell us something.

At the beginning of World War II, my mother's neighbor purchased all the peanut butter in town right before rationing was to begin.

It is with great sadness that I report that my Druncle Mac has passed. Having written about this piece of work over the years, I felt I needed to tell you.

As I watched the tributes to the extraordinary life of my friend and civil rights icon, Congressman John Lewis, the power of his message of reconciliation that I was privileged to witness two decades ago came flooding back to me.

A gang of bikers has claimed a quiet Collegedale neighborhood.

Colin Kaepernick will forever be known more for what he did on a football field during the national anthem than what he did on the field after the anthem played.

Rep. John Robert Lewis died on July 17, ending a six-decade, nonviolent campaign against racial discrimination in his native land.

For the past few weeks, we have explored some of Hamilton County's earliest cemeteries, recounting the stories of veterans of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.