Opinion: Ed Garcia favored in open District 7 Hamilton County Board of Education race
Both Republican candidates for the District 7 seat on the Hamilton County Board of Education say they are solid conservatives, both have either children or gra…
Both Republican candidates for the District 7 seat on the Hamilton County Board of Education say they are solid conservatives, both have either children or gra…
Two candidates are seeking the Republican nomination to fill the unexpired term of Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Marie Williams in the March 5 primary el…
A proposed bill in the General Assembly would allow the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development to keep certain records hidden for 10 years at the discreti…
In the late winter of 1974, the proposed "Sunshine Law" was referred to as "dastardly," "vague," "unconstitutional" and several other words you couldn't print …
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, as all governors are be wont to do in their State of the State addresses, cited a number of positive rankings for Tennessee in his add…
A bill making its way through the Tennessee legislature would end the day of dual office-holders in the state.
The optics of Gov. Bill Lee's education freedom scholarships program keep getting worse.
Chattanooga Lookouts owner Jason Freier says a community benefits agreement that revolves around development in the South Broad Street area where a new Lookout…
Late last week, in conjunction with Black History Month, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center hosted a community information session with archaeologists regarding …
State Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, was asked to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of Thursday's Tennessee House session and refused.
When it comes to legislation that does or does not pass the Tennessee General Assembly, it's a long way to "sine die," the expression that annually ends the se…
For six months, Signal Mountain's Larry Taylor got to experience the thanks of a grateful nation for heroics in a Vietnam mission in which the Medal of Honor r…
We've all read the newspaper, seen television news or scanned online posts that describe a perpetrator's fourth domestic violence conviction, eighth firearm co…
We'll believe a deal on a mixed-use new stadium in the South Broad District is final when the Chattanooga City Council and Hamilton County Commission vote affi…
Some residents living nearby had environmental concerns.
Like so many other pieces of legislation introduced by a party not in power, or when there is divided government, we don't expect this one to go very far.
Donald Trump may not have started it, but he deserves a lot of the credit for conservatives' descent in recent years into the policy of if-you're-not-for-me, y…
The let's-make-the-Bible-the-state-book folks are back with a new wrinkle.
By the time Tennessee's presidential primary six weeks from today gets here, the combatants in the 2024 race may be a foregone conclusion.
A Times Free Press Business section-front headline last Wednesday stated: "Top Federal Reserve official says inflation fight seems nearly won."
In the end, the school facilities plan recommended last August by a working group of Hamilton County leaders provided two things — a reasoned blueprint for act…
The United States House of Representatives has long been tagged "the people's house" because the framers of the Constitution saw it as the side of the legislat…
It's been less than one year since Gov. Bill Lee was inaugurated for a second term as Tennessee's governor, but one man who could succeed him was in Iowa over …
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When I was growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my father had few must-see TV appointments, unlike his younger, raised-on-television children.
The narrative the left would like you to believe is that the "Tennessee Three," state Reps. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and Gloria Jo…
For Republican voters undecided about their choice for the 2024 presidential nomination, Wednesday allowed an opportunity to gauge the field — provided one was…
It will be a hard sell to convince taxpayers that a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium that is now at least 60% more expensive than it was just a year and a half…
Fifty years ago this week, the country, the state's 3rd congressional district and the city did not take the route some said they should or even would. As a re…
A Beacon Center poll released earlier this week included information about whom Tennessee voters would choose in a repeat of the 2020 presidential election mat…
If, as two Hamilton County commissioners allege, the county's pension committee hasn't been updated since its creation more than 80 years ago, or at least in t…
It's been interesting to observe how the wording around the cost of a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium, the time period bonds would be issued for its construct…
Have you paid attention in 2023? If you have, you'll be able to ace this quiz about people, places and things in the news over the past 12 months. Good luck!
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called it "an obligation," but whatever way he chooses to describe it, his new position as chair of the Republican Governors Associatio…
The following people were among many well-known, well-loved and well-respected Chattanooga area community members who died in the past year.
Parents and community members whose Hamilton County public schools received an F on their initial school letter grades, as assigned recently by the state, may …
Theoretically, developers who plan low-income housing projects in Chattanooga and receive federal low-income housing tax credits for doing so also could be eli…
Chattanooga City Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod may believe since she beat Yusuf Hakeem once, she can do it again.
Get ready for flag wars.
Almost exactly 11 months after Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) officials announced the widening of Interstate 24 around Moccasin Bend would start…
Since Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp and Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Dr. Justin Robertson released an initial school facilities plan in August, m…
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Come March, you may be anxious to fill in the space for your favorite candidate in Tennessee's presidential preference primary, but there won't be a lot of pri…
In mid-December of 2019, the Democrat-led United States House adopted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in what was purely political t…
Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Dr. Justin Robertson told school board members Monday night he thinks it's no mere coincidence the state Department of E…
The United Auto Workers (UAW), like a bad penny, has turned up again and wants to make its third attempt at drumming workers in Chattanooga's Volkswagen manufa…
Five of the six members of the Hamilton County Board of Education up for election next year aren't running to keep their seats. Since the board went from nine …
By now, you probably know a three-judge panel recently struck down the 2022 Tennessee state Senate map, saying seats in the same county weren't properly consec…
A recent report that Tennessee's prison population increased in 2022 despite drops in violent crime seems to indicate to some people that the state is doing so…