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: Hamilton County and the medicine of black moral witness
The more I think about it, the angrier I get.
Cook: Black protest, white silence and the future of a sheriff
In July, a group of 50 suit-and-tie African-American preachers, ministers and supporters stood outside the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, declaring...
Cook: Salt of the Earth - the life of Johnny 'Digger' Tucker
Writing this column has taken me powerful places; I've met presidents and rock stars, visited prisons, protests and places so...
Cook: Bias training and the reconstruction of the mind
Not long ago, I was driving home and passed by a construction crew working in the front yard of a...
Cook: Why are other southern states installing more solar than Tennessee?
Tuesday evening, on the hottest day of the year, the parking lot thermometer read 102 degrees in St. Elmo.
Cook: We must stop burning fossil fuels
Some 15 years ago, after reading a review from George Will, I picked up Matthew Scully's "Dominion," a haunting nonfiction...
Cook: How one local family creates no trash or waste
Two years ago, Sadie McElrath, a nurse practitioner, was curled up on her living room couch, watching YouTube about the...
Cook: Downtown Chattanooga is not Disney - say no to Business Improvement District
Downtown Chattanooga's proposed Business Improvement District is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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
We attract people and companies from all around the world. Move here. Work here. Play here. Build here.
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...
