Judge Jeff Hollingsworth's welcome decision Friday to cancel the pending August recall election for a successor to Mayor Ron Littlefield was expected, and correct.
Bread is a staple of the U.S. diet and psyche. Bill Cosby touched on bread's place in American life when he said, "I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread."
The presence of Wacker Chemical in the area is increasingly noticeable. It first gained attention with its announcement to build a billion-dollar plus manufacturing plant in Bradley County.
However the recall effort against Mayor Ron Littlefield turns out, there will be no real winners.
There was a lot of unfortunate contention when Tennessee lawmakers considered and passed a bill requiring voters to present valid photo ID at the ballot box.
Residents of Bradley County and the surrounding area are no doubt proud that German company Wacker Chemical has just announced a $300 million additional investment at its facility there.
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. That's the number of children in Hill City -- a working-class neighborhood on the North Shore where residents claim an average income of a little more than $21,000 and homes sometimes sell for three times that amount -- that next year can attend Normal Park, an award-winning magnet school less than a mile away.
Put it on your calendar: For 100 days this summer, some of the smartest people in North America will live, work and play in Chattanooga, their frontal lobes buzzing like beehives as they bear down on one central question so important it may determine our future as a city.
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Gotta love it when the federal government blames everybody but itself for the misery casseroles it deposits on the nation's doorstep.
I WONDER IF "do-nothing" Chuck Fleischmann, who refused to debate before his election, will decide he'll have to now, to keep his job.
HORRORS! THE first lady wants to replace French fries and pizza with an apple or broccoli in our school lunches. We simply can't allow it.
RIGHT ON, David Cook. The problem is Hamilton County schools and the mayor, not Mosaic.
The issue of mandating that religious institutions provide health care coverage including birth control to their employees is not a cause taken up exclusively by "hard-right Republicans" as your editorial on Jan. 31 suggests.
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