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.
If you can be anything, be kind.
by Pam SohnTennessee Gov. Bill Lee picked a correct — not a politically correct, but a correct — side when he called for Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's bust to be removed from the state's Capitol building and relocated to the state museum where it might provide "more historical context."
by Pam SohnThank you, Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger, for finally ordering masks to slow and hopefully halt the spread of COVID-19 in Hamilton County starting Friday.
by Pam SohnThere is no doubt about it: The Hamilton County Sheriff's office — and particularly Sheriff Jim Hammond himself — is under the gun.
by Pam SohnDon't mess with the ACA
by Pam SohnAmerica is having a racial reckoning, and in many ways this is good — even wonderful.
by Pam SohnIf you're not in a celebratory mood for this Fourth of July weekend, you're not alone.
by Pam SohnThank 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.
by Pam SohnIs anyone surprised that the Russians offered bounties to the Taliban in Afghanistan to kill American and British troops?
by Pam SohnHixson'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.
by Pam SohnTennesseans have long bridled at our stereotypical image — hillbillies.
by Pam SohnEven Sean Hannity looked a bit defeated.
by Pam SohnSix 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.
by Pam SohnIt would be easy to say our Tennessee state lawmakers are behind the times.
by Pam SohnSo it was a joke. The question is — a joke on whom?
by Pam SohnShould we trust EPA?
by Pam SohnIt is time for the past to be the past. It is time to let it go. Haul it down. Bury it.
by Pam Sohn"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."
by Pam SohnKudos 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.
by Pam SohnIf 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.
by Pam Sohn