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.

Football is here!

Elementary school students boot up their computers and log in to class from their living rooms.

Just like that it’s over.

It’s time to revisit the old adage of not being able to please everyone all the time.

The first day of school is approaching and many parents (and kids) are stressing even more than usual about that already stressful day.

As a community we shouldn’t have to make our city and county commissions force us to act like adults — we should take personal responsibility and wear masks.

The numbers of people newly infected with the disease caused by the coronavirus are beginning to trend upward in Floyd County and, unfortunately, it looks like hospitalizations may be on the rise as well.

It’s past time to address the divisiveness in our country.

Despite the many changes that have come to downtown Rome over the years, one constant remains: If you want to start a debate just ask permission to raise a beer on Broad Street.

Hopefully you’ve enjoyed, or at least learned something, from our election guide for the primary to be held on June 9.

If you are in a position to support our local arts organizations, please do.

A little good news can be a shot in the arm sometimes, just the thing to make your step lighter and your day a little better.