Pam Sohn is the Times opinion editor, representing the left-leaning side of the Chattanooga Times Free Press opinion pages. Sohn has been reporting or editing Chattanooga news for 30 years. A Walden's Ridge native, she began her journalism career with a 10-year stint at the Anniston (Ala.) Star. She came to the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999 after working at the Chattanooga Times for 14 years. She has also been a city editor, Sunday editor, wire editor, projects team leader and assistant lifestyle editor. As a reporter, she covered the police, courts, health, education and environment beats. She has won dozens of writing and editing awards in both Alabama and Tennessee, including first-place honors for breaking news, investigative news, public service, features, reporting without a deadline and editorial writing. During her tenure as Sunday editor at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the paper received the 2002 first-place honors for Best Sunday editions and Sweepstakes Award — Best Paper in the State. She has been married for 41 years to photographer, Louis Sohn. They have a grown son, Mitch, as well as three dogs and a grand cat. When not working, Pam gardens, researches family roots and plays piano. Contact her at psohn@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6346.
Former U.S. attorney for North Georgia, Byung J. "Bjay" Pak is our guy.
by Pam SohnOur own North Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, has never seen a camera she didn't like.
by Pam SohnChattanooga officials and some city residents took a big and needed step Tuesday by meeting to talk candidly about gun violence in our city.
by Pam SohnNow we know what the "opt out" mask mandate has done for Tennessee.
by Pam SohnThe passage of Chattanooga's city budget last week sailed in and out the council chambers without a hitch - a pretty remarkable feat given that the $302 million budget gave raises to lots of city employees (especially police), did not defund police (a demand from some in our city) and included a $30 million city property tax increase (something that usually brings screams from the public).
by Pam SohnHello, Ford. Welcome to the new world - the new world of transportation post-combustion power.
by Pam Sohn"The message we're taking forward is, put the guns down. It shouldn't have to happen to someone you know. Seven women were shot. That should make all of us cry."
by Pam SohnChattanooga had a mass shooting Saturday night. Two women were killed and five other females - the youngest was 14 - were wounded.
by Pam SohnThe saga of the would-be Bellefonte Nuclear Plant continues — but not with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on board.
by Pam SohnState Rep. and Chattanooga Democrat Yusuf Hakeem is rightfully calling out the state's GOP legislative leadership for sidelining his bill to provide more Black history instruction in Tennessee schools by omitting it from the agenda of a summer education study committee.
by Pam SohnHistory is never just history - especially with environmental issues.
by Pam SohnHamilton County's COVID-19 deaths hit 600 this week. Sadly, this is not surprising in the state that has finally found a way to be No. 1 in something - the highest, fastest rate of transmission of this dangerously contagious virus.
by Pam SohnIt was a foregone conclusion. Tennessee is set to receive at least 415 Afghan refugees in the coming weeks, yet Gov. Bill Lee is calling on the White House to provide detailed information - "full transparency" - on who will be arriving.
by Pam SohnThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline thundered: "Georgia Gov. Kemp stops short of measures to address COVID-19's spread."
by Pam SohnYou may have missed this bit of important news earlier this month - given all the necessary concern over COVID-19, Afghanistan, a local election and other breaking news.
by Pam SohnFate is fickle. And justice is unsure. And often slow.
by Pam SohnSome big Chattanooga businesses ducked their heads last week when called on by Times Free Press reporters to comment on President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for employers with 100 or more workers.
by Pam SohnFlushes are not free.
by Pam SohnIt seems fitting that 20 years after we launched war in Afghanistan because the country was said to harbor al Qaeda, the terrorist group founded by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, the 9/11 mastermind, that we are readying now - in Chattanooga and across the nation - to take in Afghan refugees who assisted the U.S. military during our no-win, ill-conceived, 20-year war.
by Pam SohnThe Volunteer State's "fetal heartbeat" measure, signed into law in July 2020 by Gov. Bill Lee, might have beaten Texas to the punch on severely restricting abortion were it not still on hold in the hands of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
by Pam Sohn