Here we are less than five months from the November presidential election and Donald Trump has backed himself into a corner.

We've all heard the saying, paraphrased here for a family newspaper: The hot place down below "will freeze over" before before something or other happens.

Why is it that kids are smarter than most adults, especially about getting along for the future?

This is a tale of two men with guns. Except its not a tale. It's real life. And it's wrong. It's wrong on so many levels. One man is black and the other is white.

On Friday, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke pledged to review policing policies in Chattanooga.

It's a victory.

The words of the First Amendment are quite straightforward:

Time and again over years and years, this paper has reported first one then another angry or concerned or frightened activist, citizen, teacher, preacher — occasionally even an elected official — saying, "We've got to have a conversation."

Remember those breezy black sock masks with the TN on them that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee ordered up with an $8.2 billion, no-bid contract? They've been recalled.

With all the headlines this week about protests across the country in honor of a black man killed recently by police in Minnesota, we'd like to see more cities take some lessons from Chattanooga.

Just as it was heartbreaking to see George Floyd die in the custody of police in Minneapolis, it also was heartbreaking to see protests around the country over the weekend turn violent.

Yes, there is other news out there besides COVID-19 and protests over injustice.

When does it stop? When do Americans finally get a belly full of a president who, as coronavirus deaths hit 100,000 in this country, mocks wearing a mask and makes it his newest "politically correct" insult.

As new COVID-19 cases continue to rise locally, landing Chattanooga in the top four cities nationally for case growth rate, Hamilton County leaders told the Chattanooga Times Free Press this week they have no plans to re-tighten previously eased restrictions intended to stem the spread of the pandemic.

We are so proud today of Chattanooga Police Chief David Roddy and Hamilton County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Austin Garrett.

The message at the top of the Tennessee State Government web page states "Do your part. Stay apart."

Memorial Day and the occasional honors we give our fallen soldiers throughout the rest of the year are seemingly the only honorable things about war.

Across the country, local governments are cutting budgets as the financial impact on businesses and organizations drastically affected by the coronavirus pandemic comes into view - often in red ink.

If you're like us, one of the stories on the Times Free Press front page Thursday seemed like deja vu.

There is good, bad and ugly — and perhaps we should add missing — news on COVID-19 early in this week No. 10 of Southeast Tennessee's coronavirus chronicle.

The vice president for information technology at a Chattanooga software company has been fired after a social media firestorm identified him as the person who posted a racist meme showing former president Barack Obama with a noose around his neck.

Each passing week, we learn new and more sobering information about COVID-19 and its impact on our communities, states and nation.

President Donald Trump went on a rampaging tweet storm last week, just as top health officials made it clear that the COVID-19 pandemic was indeed not going away.