Five years ago, with the approach of the Republican presidential primaries, discussions always seemed to include the question: "When will Trump start acting presidential?"

Whenever news bubbles up about legislative plans the incoming Biden administration is considering, the name Joe Manchin is mentioned.

Wednesday's rushed second impeachment of President Donald Trump by a Democratic House prompted us to wonder if the once dark stain on a chief executive's leadership now would become a routine measure taken by an opposing party who doesn't like an action by a president.

My but what short memories we have.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suddenly had something better to do than attend last Saturday's Buffalo Bills-Indianapolis Colts National Football League playoff game.

A woman in line at the mass vaccination station in Mobile, Alabama, stopped short when health officials began asking her for personal information. When they requested her age, she got up and walked out.

The morning of the day a mob supporting President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol earlier this week, a Washington Post columnist authored a piece that was quite remarkable in admitting what he and his fellow travelers in the national media did more than four years ago.

President Donald Trump, it appears, will leave office with as few elected Republican supporters as he had when he started his campaign for presidency in 2015.

It appears Vice President-elect Kamala Harris won't be moving very far.

Joe Biden is expected to be inaugurated the 46th president two weeks from today, and we already sense trouble ahead.

A presidential election is terribly difficult to steal.

The left-leaning national media has been full of puff pieces about Georgia U.S. senatorial candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, but the three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, have ignored the recent news about the pair as the campaign draws to a close.

Whoever had the pandemic square on the 2020 game board of predictions may be about the only one smiling these days.

A look back at some noteworthy Free Press editorial cartoons in 2020.

One of the casualties of the bitter partisanship of the last four years appears to be a loss of understanding of the principles of governance by some members of Congress.

Unemployment in Chattanooga fell last month to 4.3%, just 1% above the level it reached in the economic recovery before the coronavirus pandemic shut down many businesses in mid-March.

If you knew your taxpayer money was going to support a research program that involves lizards walking on treadmills, what would you think?

No one ever said it was going to be easy, this annual trip around the sun.

No last-minute Santa Claus came to save a coalition Tuesday that wanted to put legislation for a new Chattanooga police oversight board on the March 2021 ballot. Nor should one have.

The leaders of the United States Senate and House were all smiles when they faced the media Sunday night to say that details on another COVID-19 relief bill finally had been agreed to.

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, who recently suggested President Donald Trump should be "investigated" after he leaves office to "send a message across the world that we will not tolerate the undermining of our democracy in the way this president has done," apparently sees nothing wrong with her daughter collecting nearly a quarter of a million dollars from her campaign over the 2019-2020 cycle.

Any assessment of a county's health in 2020 without mention of the coronavirus feels somehow inadequate, but The Sycamore Institute's recently released 2020 health profiles report of Tennessee counties provides an updated baseline with which to track the state's nearly 7 million residents.