Pam Sohn

America is having a racial reckoning, and in many ways this is good — even wonderful.

If you're not in a celebratory mood for this Fourth of July weekend, you're not alone.

Thank you, Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger, for "considering" a mask mandate as Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee this week extended two emergency executive orders stretching the state's April state of emergency declaration for COVID-19 an additional eight weeks through Aug. 29.

Is anyone surprised that the Russians offered bounties to the Taliban in Afghanistan to kill American and British troops?

Hixson's state Rep. Robin Smith retweeted a meme on Twitter — and commented on it — comparing hand straps on a bus or subway to the Bubba Wallace "noose" controversy at NASCAR.

Tennesseans have long bridled at our stereotypical image — hillbillies.

Even Sean Hannity looked a bit defeated.

Six of our Hamilton County commissioners, the Hamilton County sheriff, and the five deputies involved in the May 23 beating of a Black man for the crime of walking while Black owe, at the very least, apologies to that man and to every citizen of this county.

It would be easy to say our Tennessee state lawmakers are behind the times.

So it was a joke. The question is — a joke on whom?

Should we trust EPA?

It is time for the past to be the past. It is time to let it go. Haul it down. Bury it.

"A wounded president heading into a combustible (and possibly contagious) situation could very well produce a spectacle unlike any political rally we've ever seen before. If it still happens."

Kudos to the Fulton County District Attorney's office in Atlanta for being quick and decisive in filing charges Wednesday against the Atlanta police officers who shot and killed a fleeing man five days before.

If you're asking yourself why you're the only person in a store, on a sidewalk, in a post office or strolling in a park with a mask on, you're not alone.

There is some deep satisfaction — at least we think so — in the fact that the Supreme Court's major gay rights ruling on Monday was written by one of the court's most conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch — Donald Trump's first high court appointee.

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.