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.
The forgotten tragedy of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial — whether the U.S. Senate finds its soul and allows a full and fair hearing complete with government-withheld documents and witnesses — is that our elections still remain vulnerable to foreign interference.
by Pam SohnIf you're a Fox News watcher — and in Tennessee and North Georgia many people are — you missed a moment and a speech that someday will be the stuff of history books. You missed American patriotism rising to the moment.
by Pam SohnA caller to our office Thursday morning was incensed that one of Tennessee's senators, Marsha Blackburn, left the chamber where she is a juror in the Trump impeachment trial to give a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
by Pam SohnIn today's insult-driven, hate-filled and fear-mongering world, it's too easy to find outrage in the least things.
by Pam SohnThere's been a lot of talk among pundits about "vulnerable" Republican Congress and Senate members in the election year of Trump's impeachment.
by Pam SohnLast summer, our community was shown a long-awaited efficiency consultant's report on Hamilton County's school buildings, and the finding was stunning: Our 74 public schools carried a $1.36 billion capital needs price tag.
by Pam SohnThe Hamilton County school board was right Thursday to opt for hiring up to 10 of its own security officers for some campuses — despite reservations from the sheriff, who said he would rather see the district arm teachers or school staff members.
by Pam SohnEvery time we learn new information from people like Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who worked with the president's personal attorney on the effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate a 2020 campaign opponent of President Donald Trump, "it always points in the direction that Trump was putting his interests above America's security and election integrity."
by Pam SohnIt appears that we have a 2016 election hacking redux — a deja vu, all-over-again operation that shows the "Russian hoax" was and is real.
by Pam SohnIs it any wonder that too many Americans don't know what to believe anymore?
by Pam SohnHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week will again sharpen the focus on the impeachment of President Donald Trump. And on the future of our democracy.
by Pam SohnWhile we wait on dithering politicians to make our world safer, and as we watch with horror while our president unravels both himself and the world, there are some patriots who could — and should — speak up to make a difference.
by Pam SohnYour government is at work to cheat you again. You only have until Friday night to tell the U.S. Forest Service that its plan to timber in North Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest is a bad idea.
by Pam SohnIt's easy to miss local and state news these days — what with all the impeachment and Iran headlines.
by Pam SohnWho says making the world better doesn't begin at home?
by Pam SohnWelcome to 2020. The year of impeachment.
by Pam SohnPresident Trump has said many times he doesn't like "endless wars."
by Pam SohnThe 2010s were a lost decade for climate. We can't afford a repeat, scientists warn. But that looks to be where we're heading under today's derelict political administration.
by Pam SohnIt is about to be 2020.
by Pam SohnIt is heartening that Tennessee - and Chattanooga - will continue to welcome refugees in the coming year - even after President Trump in September slashed the number of refugees allowed into the country and gave states and local governments the right to refuse refugee resettlement within their borders.
by Pam Sohn