It's been a plunging fall for Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, once complimented by like-minded members of the national media for his handling of the COVID-19 virus in his state.

It feels particularly cruel that the year in which the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is marked will see no public Memorial Day ceremony at the Chattanooga National Cemetery and no flags at each of the more than 50,000 graves in the nearly 121-acre expanse.

The city Andy Berke inherited as mayor in April 2013 was one that had weathered the Great Recession better than most, according to experts.

Paintballs have replaced bullets in fights among young adults in some Chattanooga neighborhoods, and on the surface spilling paint is better than spilling blood.

In late March and April, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee was criticized over the state's backward, unscientific and late responses to the COVID-19 virus.

No matter what any experts tell Americans about the COVID-19 virus, what we know is we don't know what we don't know.

Excuses from the Joe Biden camp around his growing scandals have multiplied like Hillary Clinton's reasons for losing the 2016 presidential election.

In the halcyon days before the COVID-19 virus, the United States government was nearly $25 million in debt and was projected to spend $1.1 trillion more this year than it collected in taxes.

Doctors and first responders don't ask for immigration papers when treating patients with the COVID-19 virus, but Chattanooga became the latest U.S. city Thursday to record a rise in cases among a Hispanic immigrant population.

The very name of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's COVID-19 virus relief bill, the Heroes Act, suggests it's something it's not.

Hamilton County teachers have complained for years about their salaries being too low, and for the most part they've been right.

Tennessee residents may get an opportunity in 2022 to vote to prohibit slavery in the state.

The Democrats' Marie Antoinette moment of the week belongs to U.S. Rep. Harley Rouda of California, who said opening beaches was "reckless," then was photographed last weekend spending time on a beach with his family.

None of their websites say they like baseball, hot dogs or apple pie, but the nine candidates for the Republican nomination for the United States House seat in Georgia's 14th congressional district claim to have nearly every other all-American attribute.

If you feel like the walls are closing in as a result of prolonged orders to stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, you aren't the only one.

If the United States had waited to declare victory until the last Japanese soldier surrendered to end World War II, nearly 30 years would have passed.

Former President George W. Bush reminded us over the weekend of one of the jobs our White House leader should embrace — uniter in chief.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, fretted over Monday's reconvening of the United States Senate because of what he said was the inability to test all 100 of its members for the COVID-19 virus.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, the same man who told residents of his state not to go into Tennessee and catch the COVID-19 virus, recently had to pull his foot out of his mouth after blasting people using false names to defraud the state's unemployment benefits system.

It's interesting to watch Democrats equivocate over the burgeoning sex scandal involving presumed presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Our favorite quote from one of our favorite movies, "Parenthood" (1989), describes life in Chattanooga these days as the city recovers from a devastating tornado and takes tentative first steps out from stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The most frightening development in the United States Wednesday wasn't a rise in COVID-19 cases or the spiraling federal debt from the virus-generated recession but may have been a federal appeals court decision that struck down a Kansas voter registration law requiring proof of citizenship.

We can't put the COVID-19 genie back in the bottle, but our response to the coronavirus already can prepare us for any future reoccurrence or similar dangerous pathogen.