Opinion: Why has it taken so long to review ‘Bible in the Schools’?
The Times Free Press reported Sunday that officials with Hamilton County Schools are in the early stages of forming a committee to review our "Bible in the Sch…
The Times Free Press reported Sunday that officials with Hamilton County Schools are in the early stages of forming a committee to review our "Bible in the Sch…
With a little more than a week to go until Election Day, more than 20.7 million pre-election ballots have been cast in 46 states.
When Tennessee voters put pen to paper this mid-term election cycle, the first race we'll see on the ballot will be that of governor.
We are hearing far too little about the Democratic candidates in our local statehouse and congressional elections -- all two of them: Allison Gorman and Meg Go…
We are weary of school students' parents whining about their children being taught.
Watch this week to see if our middle-aged-to-elderly Hamilton County commissioners and our new millennial county mayor continue to snip and snipe at each other.
Don't let your eyes glaze over when you get to the small print -- the four amendments proposed for the Tennessee Constitution -- on your ballot for the Nov. 8 …
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been making sure she was seen a lot lately, warming up a crowd for her blustering, pathetic former president and sitting behind Repu…
The Hamilton County Commission certainly doesn't mind spending $10,000 of our money -- maybe more -- to find out if Weston Wamp is indeed the mayor of the coun…
We need to stop the real steal. The next one in the making by Republicans.
It was a pretty simple question for Georgia's Republican lawmakers and candidates running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and t…
Thankfully, the CDC and other trackers are rating the risk of COVID-19 in Tennessee and Hamilton County as "low" these days. But don't be lulled into thinking …
If you watch no other Jan. 6 hearing videos (and you really should watch them all), you must watch Thursday's Select Committee hearing.
Not too long ago, this page challenged local elected officials to be as creative and determined with ideas to fund our schools — both in academics and in defer…
This would be funny, were it not so sick: North Georgia's U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, thinks conspiracy theorist and serial radio liar Alex Jones…
Please, please, please — let's not hurt any feelings. Especially little white feelings.
What makes home and our homeland so special? What makes it -- well -- home?
It's a red letter day in Chattanooga.
UTC West Chair of Excellence and communications professor Dr. Dave Sachsman could be a bit on the sandpapery side at times. Especially about stories involving …
As Hamilton County and the nation pull further and further away from the grimmest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's good to begin seeing progress on other fr…
Why is it so much easier in the South to bad-mouth something -- even when we know there isn't that much to complain about? Electric cars offer us a perfect exa…
What a concept! Hamilton County's courthouse government and our school board and some mover/shaker community members are going to work together -- not just tal…
Something is wrong in a school when a teacher or coach calls a school resource officer over words between a student and a coach.
Some of us remember being taught to crouch beneath our school desks for protection in the event of a nuclear attack in the early 1960s.
From 2019 to 2021, during the time of the pandemic — 183 current senators or representatives reported a trade of a stock or another financial asset by themselv…
Throughout September, the Tennessee Charter School Commission's 13-member staff of the state's unelected, nine-member charter school commission will be determi…
If the voters of Chattanooga's District 8 — in Alton Park, Avondale, Bushtown, East Chattanooga, East Lake, Eastside, Ridgedale and downtown — don't like their…
Like a number of Chattanoogans, we noticed more news about shootings and carjackings in the first couple of weeks of September, so with an email late Friday af…
Would you like to really know how Hamilton County and Tennessee students are doing in school? Would you like to know what and how they are learning? Well, good…
Weston Wamp, while campaigning to become mayor of Hamilton County before the primary, faced constant chatter (that's a kind word) from his Republican competiti…
A shout out today goes to East Ridge Elementary School teachers -- particularly special education teacher Heather Modrow -- for an extra effort to help a stude…
Are we ready? If we're not, we'd best be preparing. Last weekend brought torrential rains to much of the South and more was forecast for this weekend.
It isn't often that we agree with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee.
Against a backdrop of rising seas and extreme summer weather events averaging about one a week, the United States Senate is dithering about appointing new TVA …
Pardon us if we sound today like a broken record. But when a wheel is off-kilter, usually no one notices until it squeaks and grinds, squeaks and grinds, squea…
There's an apt new descriptor now for climate change -- zombie.
The remainder of 2022, and likely 2023 as well, will be the perfect time for Hamilton County residents to begin paying more attention to our local leaders. Why…
The email letter went out Tuesday announcing "A new era begins Thursday."
Here is a challenge for every elected city, county and state official in Hamilton County: Expend as much energy fighting to find public money -- or issue bonds…
The New York Times' COVID-19 mapping and coverage had a new twist for us Friday: On the paper's "hot spots" map, Tennessee lit up like a hot red bullseye.
Why is it that Chattanooga's so-called conservatives seem to collectively lose their minds over diversity, equity and immigrants?
In school performance, is the glass half empty or half full? But perhaps a more important question is what have our teachers most recently been tasked with doi…
All over the news in recent days we've seen commentary exalting or decrying the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act, aimed primarily at lowering inflation thr…
Let's give a big Texas hats off to Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and his staff for heading off at the pass Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the GOP's immigration-scare…
Erlanger soon will be keep you -- and us -- even more in the dark than we all were before.
It hasn't been so long ago that Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and our new Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy talked positively about recruiting new police o…
"It's like losing 20 pounds when you need to lose 100 pounds," said Robert McNally, the president of Rapidan Energy Group, an energy consulting firm. "And this…
We are embarking - for better or worse - on a new era in Chattanooga. We're betting a lot of the farm on a minor league baseball stadium to be built with mostl…
Change is beginning.
We've said it before. Women will not go back. Nor will plenty of men. Kansas just proved it.