Staff List
David Cook (Reporter) |
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| Phone: | (423) 757-6357 |
| E-mail: | dcook@timesfreepress.com |
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Bio:
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).
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Cook: How to travel the world without leaving home
Long before she swam with bull sharks in Fiji or wept with Buddhist nuns in Cambodia or heard the voice...
Cook: This is what racial reconciliation can look like
More than a century after the lynching murder of Ed Johnson, the healing work continues.
Cook: Reparations, freedom and the end of denial
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Cook: Better schools won't fix Hamilton County
On Wednesday, Hamilton County leaders will vote on a budget that includes a property tax rate hike to additionally fund...
Cook: Corporate greed is the issue, not unions
Friday night, the United Auto Workers lost the union election at Volkswagen.
Cook: Chattanooga soccer: It matters who you cheer for
There are two professional soccer teams in Chattanooga. Yet there is only room in this town for one.
Cook: Why I support a tax increase for public schools
Not long ago in Chattanooga, a little girl got suspended from a neighborhood rec center.
Cook: Searching for more on Memorial Day
I can't remember the last time I genuinely and somberly memorialized any deceased veteran on Memorial Day.
Cook: Tennessee and the god of human violence
Would Gov. Bill Lee execute King David, too?
Music festivals and Chattanooga's diversity crisis
Summer approaches. It's music festival season.
Cook: Why this man ran 50 miles through the desert
There in the desert, 20 miles from nowhere, as the wind began to howl and the rain turned awful and...
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Cook: The future of the Garden of Eden
Jesus said to consider the lilies of the field.
Cook: Chattanooga and the Little White Lie
Thursday evening inside a Chattanooga Convention Center ballroom, Mayor Andy Berke will give his sixth State of the City address.
Cook: Bryan Williamson and the trigger of kindness
Before he was shot for the first time, Bryan Williamson had been feeling good about things, that life, finally, was...
Cook: Could Chattanooga host March Madness?
It was last weekend; the opening rounds of the most intoxicating three weeks in American sports — the NCAA men's...
Cook: Healing and unity through Ed Johnson's story
In the early evening of March 19, five days ago, dozens of Chattanoogans gathered on the south side of the...
Cook: The Bible, the moon and why being gay is not a sin
The email arrived a week or so ago, not long after the United Methodist church voted to affirm its ban...
Cook: Four stories and the fog of winter
On Wednesday, the Hamilton County Commission will vote on a resolution to allocate $100,000 for a memorial honoring Ed Johnson,...
