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.
Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that Russia again is trying to influence the U.S. elections, chiefly through attempts to "denigrate" Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
by Pam SohnAt the heart of every story about coronavirus loss and tragedy is the question of what happens next.
by Pam SohnWe have to wonder when the conservative right will stop believing a president who cannot keep his stories straight for even a week at a time.
by Pam SohnWhile President Trump returned to holding indoor rallies in Nevada on Sunday and Phoenix on Monday despite continuing COVID-19 concerns there, the Tennessee Department of Health reported 2,450 new COVID-19 cases Monday, bringing the state's case total to 174,274 cases.
by Pam SohnHate isn't a two-way street. Nor is it bipartisan or nonsectarian or colorless or genderless.
by Pam SohnWildfires are racing toward your home.
by Pam SohnWhile the West's climate — especially in California — has always made it prone to fires, the link between human-caused climate change and bigger fires is inextricable, according to Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
by Pam SohnOn Thursday, as many Americans struggled to reconcile what they heard with their own ears on the news - President Donald Trump talking with journalist Bob Woodward about the "deadly stuff" of the airborne coronavirus and his determination to downplay it to the public — this page sought input from Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.
by Pam Sohn"This is deadly stuff," Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward in an on-the-record, taped interview on Feb. 7.
by Pam SohnElection Day is seven weeks and six days from today.
by Pam SohnHave a happy Labor Day.
by Pam SohnMuch has been said and written in recent weeks about making a voting plan for the Nov. 3 general election - and about whether the U.S. Postal Service is ready to process and deliver election mail in time for an expected onslaught of mail-in and absentee ballots.
by Pam SohnWe'd like to believe the headlines that would lead us to think the COVID-19 crisis is easing. But it's too soon to believe that.
by Pam SohnDonald Trump claimed he was visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to call for unity.
by Pam SohnLet's try wrapping our heads around what we're told was an unsolicited private hospital company's offer to buy Erlanger for $475 million dollars.
by Pam SohnWe certainly can't say that American's racial unrest is going quietly into the night - or going quietly anywhere.
by Pam SohnIt's soring time again in Tennessee.
by Pam SohnOf all the lies Trump administration officials pumped out during the Republican National Convention this week, the ones they should be held accountable for most pertain to the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Pam SohnOn a night of multiple crises, Vice President Mike Pence in his Republican National Convention address spun an alternative tale of this nation's reality and offered a raft of empty platitudes and out-right lies to Americans.
by Pam SohnThis was supposed to be the week when Donald Trump had an opportunity to give himself a reboot.
by Pam Sohn