Pam Sohn

Thank you so much, Mr. President, for releasing the soon-to-be iconic White House photo seen around the world: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi standing up in the Cabinet Room, pointing her finger at your visibly angry face as she questions why, with you, do "all roads lead to Putin?"

More unites us than divides us. That was evident on the Democratic candidates' debate stage last week. But, as the contenders pointed out, common values also are evident across our country.

Tennessee and Hamilton County residents were forced to stand by and watch some of our leaders make shameful votes on our behalf on Wednesday.

Tennessee's population is one of the nation's sickest, and we lead the country in kicking kids off Medicaid — in our case, TennCare, the state's insurance for the poor. We also are 10th in the U.S. for residents who in debt because of medical costs.

Already, Donald Trump had begun to distance himself from Rudy Giuliani, who is now said to be under investigation over his Ukraine work to find dirt on a Trump opponent. Then Trump thought better of it.

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch — the one removed from her post on President Trump's order apparently because she fought corruption rather than instigating it as the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani seems to have done — defied the Trump administration and met with House lawmakers at a closed-door deposition Friday.

Are Hamilton County commissioners trying to tell Hamilton County residents that they don't want us to have any say — again — in how our money is spent?

The craziness keeps coming.

It's time to padlock Coyote Jack's, the downtown restaurant, bar and nightclub in Southside that in less than five years and several rebrandings has been the scene of three fatal shootings, 10 non-fatal shootings, 23 calls to police to report "shots fired" and 470 total requests for police assistance.

"Researchers assembled over 100 voting machines. Hackers broke into every single one."

By now, you've likely seen video of President Donald Trump's rant against the "do-nothing" Congress or seen his profane Thursday tweet denigrating them.

Last November, Bob Corker reminded us why we would miss him in the U.S. Senate when he returned to private life in Chattanooga in January.

When does this madness end? There was Donald Trump again, pandering for the cameras and microphones Thursday, this time to ask another foreign country, China, to interfere in an American election.

As President Donald Trump and his allies attack the whistle-blower who prompted the House's impeachment inquiry, the still-unidentified person gained a new and powerful ally Tuesday: Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley.

There is something to be said for having an impending deadline in politics, and for U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, that means devoting his final three months in office toward advancing legislation he hopes will help reset Washington's stalemate over gun violence.

Let's talk about Joe Biden.

We hear and read a lot about how climate change will make sea levels rise. We don't hear or read so much about the other effects of climate change on our oceans. At least we didn't until last Wednesday when a major new United Nations report dropped.

Things are moving fast.

Turning blighted communities around is rarely easy. If it were, we wouldn't have blighted communities.

To impeach or not to impeach. To impeach himself, or not to impeach himself.