David Cook
Times Free Press
Chattanooga, TN, United States
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Past articles by David:
Cook: How to age wisely: the generational divide and ways to bridge it
Six months...and three weeks. → Read More
Cook: Listening to outspoken and unapologetic Black women
How are the voices of Black women received in this city and county? Especially outspoken, unapologetic Black women? → Read More
Cook: Megaphones, everywhere: how to find silence in loud times
We have reached the end of privatized prisons in Hamilton County. → Read More
Cook: 'Intolerable, brutal, immoral' - it is time for Jim Hammond to resign as Hamilton County sheriff
In July 2019, after a video surfaced of white officers beating, kicking and strip-searching a handcuffed Black man, 50 or so Black leaders stood on the Hamilton County Courthouse steps with one clear message for the sheriff. → Read More
Cook: Nobody's coming to save Chattanooga during the COVID-19 crisis
No one is coming to save us. → Read More
Cook: The foulest downtown smell of all
A Chattanooga landmark is under attack. → Read More
The day after the Women's Rally: How to make equity legitimate
It can be difficult building and organizing community. → Read More
Cook: We impeached Trump. Here's an even crazier idea.
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump. → Read More
Cook: Fatherhood and the parable of the ceiling fan
Just yesterday it was a crib. Or a bike with training wheels. Then, a bike without. → Read More
Cook: Could Chattanooga host March Madness?
It was last weekend; the opening rounds of the most intoxicating three weeks in American sports — the NCAA men's March Madness tournament — had begun. → Read More
Cook: How will the Methodist church treat gay Christians?
Women should keep silent in church. → Read More
Cook: The most important legal idea you've never heard of
You're watching the Super Bowl when you discover a dead mouse in the jar of cheese dip. → Read More
Cook: Whitewashing the Best Town Ever
White people? They're everywhere. Too many to count. But African-Americans? → Read More
Cook: Where the true things are
On the third day of the new year, Dusty, a bay Morgan gelding, collapsed in the morning rain. His giant body was stuck — halfway in his stable, halfway out. → Read More
Cook: Predictions and promises for 2019
In 2019, Donald Trump's presidency will come to an end. → Read More
Cook: Chattanooga Area Food Bank's wish list
First, the good news. → Read More
Cook: What would Walter Cronkite say about our river?
We wouldn't be Chattanooga without the Tennessee River. → Read More
Cook: An Open Letter to the Tennessee GOP
Our new U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is many things, but moderate is not one of them. → Read More
Cook: The hardest gang to leave
Sometime Tuesday, Casey Moore, a 24-year-old local writer, will go to jail. → Read More
Cook: Why you should beware of a Chattanooga business improvement district
I first heard of business improvement districts (BIDs) a decade ago, when a friend, Dr. Randall Amster of Georgetown University, was protesting an attempt by Tempe, Arizona, to transform its downtown. → Read More