David Cook is the award-winning city columnist for the Times Free Press, working in the same building where he began his post-college career as a sportswriter for the Chattanooga Free Press. Cook, who graduated from Red Bank High, holds a master's degree in Peace and Justice Studies from Prescott College and an English degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. For 12 years, he was a teacher at the middle, high school and university levels. A Marshall Memorial Fellow, Cook published in magazines (The Sun, Utne Reader, Geez), academic journals, an anthology on homelessness ("Personal Struggles, Professional Lives: Ethics and Advocacy in Research on Homelessness" — Lexington Press) and an anthology on grandparents and grandchildren ("Grandparenting with Heart" — North Atlantic).
Springer Capital is a real estate equity firm in Philadelphia, some 700 miles away. It owns properties along the eastern U.S., including two apartment complexes in Chattanooga.
by David CookYears ago, a friend was teaching elementary school in North Georgia.
by David CookWe were in the kitchen cooking. Tuesday night. My wife read the news on her phone.
by David CookYes, in Tuesday's mayoral run-off, Tim Kelly won.
by David CookIt was Saturday, March 14, 2020.
by David CookHer name was Claudine.
by David CookImagine the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park without any statues or memorials.
by David CookTo all the poll workers, campaign volunteers, voters, election officials and candidates who ran for the right reasons: Thank you.
by David CookTuesday, the city votes for a new mayor.
by David CookWhat if it had been your father beaten? Your son cavity-searched? Your daughter groped?
by David CookEarlier this month, Hugh Willett, editor of the Roane County News, received an email from a young journalism student — not quite out of school — named Reagan England.
by David CookDo you know the most dangerous thing on earth?
by David CookIt was winter 2019.
by David CookFor the last five years, Donald Trump has lived in my body.
by David CookThis is an invitation.
by David CookWednesday afternoon, a friend and I took a walk through Pleasant Gardens Cemetery, the African American burial ground on Missionary Ridge.
by David CookI remember early March.
by David CookOn Tuesday, Hamilton County recorded a record 510 positive COVID-19 cases.
by David CookSixty years ago this month, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chattanooga.
by David CookFor the last 261 days, ever since the coronavirus appeared in this county on March 13, an untold number of men and women have devoted and risked their lives to save ours.
by David Cook