We’re now seeing some movement on the former Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital property — and this is why it’s a good thing. Some detractors immediately struck out at Georgia’s lack of mental health services but unfortunately it’s an apples to oranges comparison.

Oftentimes when one looks back on any event, you’re invariably going to say that you could have done better. The thing is, moving forward you have to work to do better to make that realization worthwhile.

It’s actually a pleasure to cover an election that began on the qualifying day and will end on Election Day.

It’s time to get over it.

They fidget, then grumble, blink and sometimes make weird faces every year for what is now a parental tradition — the first day back to school photo.

It seemed like we were finally done with the pandemic but slack interest in vaccinations continues to lead to increased numbers of people infected with the more virulent delta strain of COVID-19, which unfortunately leads to more hospitalizations and deaths.

The signs won’t be changing for another few months but the largest business deal in the history of Floyd County was completed this week — Floyd Medical Center is now a part of North Carolina-based Atrium Health.

We’ve been encouraged to see a recent push to clean up the Martha Berry corridor of pervasive drug activity, but for those continuing to battle addiction we’d like to offer some encouragement.

There have been many Juneteenth celebrations, but this one is a special one.

It’s been put up for a vote twice and failed to pass twice, but it’s really time for the City Commission to give a limited open container ordinance a fair chance to succeed or to fail on its own merits.

We’re almost a little afraid to say that life is getting “back to normal.”

Your time is coming up.

Congratulations are in order.

We’re at the point where we look back at the bitter local rivalry between Floyd Medical Center and Redmond Regional Medical Center and think of the good old days.

While the potential for the sale of a community staple — Redmond Regional Medical Center — was one of our biggest topics this week, there are several other items we’d like to address.

As a community and as a state we need to get involved with child abuse prevention efforts.

So much in the past year has pulled us apart, and this week’s editorial began yet another look at this past week’s political skirmishes.

April has been designated as National Distracted Driving Awareness Month by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and that’s a good reminder of the importance of putting down your cellphone or anything else while you drive and putting your focus exactly where it should be: on th…

The high points under the Gold Dome this year were high and the low points were low — but items moving this session illustrated how ready politicians are for what will likely be a very defining 2022 election in Georgia.

As a community we can sit back and let things happen, or we can move forward and make them happen.

It was this time last year that the new region public health director stood up in front of a room of people and called for calm.

Georgia lawmakers should stop pandering and start legislating.

There were a lot of residents in Celanese/Riverside who voiced their frustrations concerning the idea of being annexed into the city.

Legislation that falls solely in the category of political posturing needs to stop.

It’s been over a decade since the Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital was closed and we’ve seen many proposals for the best use of that property.

“You are young, gifted and Black, We must begin to tell our youth There’s a world waiting for you, Yours is a quest that’s just begun”

The City of Rome recently removed a statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from a prominent place at Myrtle Hill Cemetery. In light of social issues that have swept the nation in recent months, the statue — and others like it — have become points of contention.

The scenes from the U.S. Capitol were appalling, and the continued ramping up of unfounded conspiracy theories before and after a mob vandalized the building were as bad, if not worse.

A saying attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle goes something like this: If you can’t follow, you’re not going to make a good leader.

Viral disinformation is one of the many factors making the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 so serious.

We agree with the next President of the United States.

Our city or county commissioners shouldn’t feel like they must force us to act like adults — we should take personal responsibility and wear masks.

Floyd County needs to change the process of how we recruit and compensate the person in charge of our elections.

The hand recount of ballots in the presidential race has begun and it’s a costly and pointless exercise.

Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the presidential election. Ideally, that question would now be closed, and all attention would turn to the new administration’s agenda. But for the next short while, things aren’t quite that simple. Though it’s hard to imagine this result being rever…

We’d like to put the spotlight on a few of our local leaders and amplify what we’d like to see from our state and national leaders.

There are few area attractions that are almost always open, always free and usually interesting. Fortunately for us, there’s one such place right here in Dalton.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best in a lot of people — from our brave frontline heroes working to save as many lives as possible to those doing what they can to support them — the side effects of the pandemic have also exacerbated some of the worst elements of our society.

Earlier this week, if you’d have said the president of the United States would stop by Floyd County we would have thought you’d gone crazy.

”My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”

There are those who say Election Day should be a national holiday, and to that we say “Why not?”

Your chance is coming and you should take it.

When you look at Shorter Avenue headed out toward West Rome, what do you see?

Senate Democrats have blocked the Republicans’ long-delayed plan for additional coronavirus aid, raising the prospect that Congress will provide no added fiscal support for the economy between now and the presidential election in November. The two sides are no longer talking, and at this poi…

Type 2 diabetes. Sleep apnea. Obesity. Coronary artery disease. Mental illness. These are just a few of what used to be known as “declinable conditions” before the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010.

There was sadness born out of shock and loss in the days and months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.