Local and national public health officials could say "we told you so," but what would be the point?

A prophet, it is said in the Bible, is seldom heard in his own land.

One doesn't have to look very far to find articles that suggest our neighbors in the state of Georgia are racist for holding runoff elections in which it is required that the winner have a majority of the votes.

Few lasting fusillades of outrage have been launched over President Donald Trump's Thanksgiving-Eve pardon of former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

You owe us! Oh, wait

When millions of people believe an election has been stolen, the issue of who won the 2020 presidential race is not going to go away quickly.

Failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spent the three years after her defeat providing anyone who would give her an audience some two dozen different excuses why she did not win.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron." — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956

We've lost count the number of times Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have been hauled in front of Senate committees about their regulation of social media content.

Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger extended the county's mask mandate to Jan. 15 on Thursday, and the action no doubt left many residents seething.

If all things are equal, what part should race and gender play in the awarding of city government contracts?

Several commentaries on this page, and many elsewhere, have urged that President Donald Trump preside over a peaceful transition of power to a new administration in January.

The result of the presidential election in Hamilton County was never in doubt earlier this month, but the unofficial precinct count offers a snapshot of why the country did not re-elect - pending unforeseen changes - President Donald Trump.

In the middle of the unwatchable brawl that was the first presidential debate in late September in Cleveland, Ohio, former Vice President Joe Biden was asked by moderator Chris Wallace if he would "pledge not to declare victory until the election is independently certified."

Rumors of the death of the Republican Party were widely and greatly exaggerated after President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election.

With each new day, Georgians are learning not only about the Democratic candidates vying for two United States Senate seats in the Jan. 5 runoffs but how desperate national Democrats are to make sure those candidates are elected.

Declared presidential winner Joe Biden and his vice-presidential pick, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, have a serious dilemma on their hands.

We don't know, but we do wonder whether the fraud the president's team alleges is scattered or widespread.

One could almost feel sorry for Joe Biden. He will be inaugurated as president on Jan.20, pending judicial challenges and certification of the election, with only about half the country behind him, and most of those because they hated the guy before him.

The chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) reportedly slammed polls and turnout models last week in a phone call with House Democrats when the party lost seats - instead of gaining up to 15, as had been predicted as late as Election Day.

Throughout the summer, following the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, a false narrative began to grow in the country.

What is the average Tennessee Trump voter to make of the difficulty in counting ballots in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona?

Remember the Maytag repairman?