Tennessee has a crime problem -- it ranks fifth per capita in the nation for violent crimes and leads the country in the number of meth labs -- that has persisted for years despite various programs to curtail it.
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."
Both Tennessee and Georgia are facing serious challenges in continuing to provide scholarships funded by the states' lotteries.
Well, it's now painfully official: 2011 was the worst year on record for sales of new homes in the United States.
In 2009 and 2010, U.S. labor unions lost about 1.4 million members. That reversed slightly in 2011, according to new figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unions added about 50,000 members nationwide.
What happens when journalists and politicians meet? Well, they often end up debating open-meetings laws (not to mention professional wrestling).
Conservatives just introduced the Republican establishment to the business end of a two-by-four, relegating Mitt Romney to bad second- and even third-place finishes in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.
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.
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.
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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