Opinion: The county election is over. The future (and the stadium plan) is not. Now what?
Whew! County elections are over.
Whew! County elections are over.
What a wild end to an oddly entertaining county mayor's race.
Adding insult to injury as we desperately and unsuccessfully - so far - hope to be free of COVID-19, we now learn that we also have three cases of monkeypox co…
Early voting in Hamilton County was down 9% for this year's county general and state primary compared to 2018. And in 2018, early voting was down 8.85% from fo…
If you slept any at all last week, you might have missed news of the proposed new Lookouts baseball stadium in the South Broad Street area barreling ahead amon…
Local and Tennessee Republicans are showing themselves to be just as low, disgusting and deceitful as national Republicans.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee just can't help himself - he keeps adding insult to injury for teachers and public schools in our state.
We've gotten loud. Now it's time to vote loud.
Already, we have seven decided school board members: Rhonda Thurman, District 1; Marco Perez, District 2; Tiffanie Robinson, District 4; Joe Wingate, District …
John Allen Brooks, an attorney in private practice here for 30 years and and a former Hamilton County commissioner, is far and away the best choice to be the n…
Come September, the Hamilton County Commission will bump from nine seats to 11 seats - thanks to the 2020 Census and the commission's vote to add seats thanks …
Can't you almost smell the change in the political air at the Hamilton County Courthouse?
For three-and-a half months, Hamilton County and Chattanooga taxpayers have been getting the hard sell by our mayors and other officials trying to persuade us …
Three cheers for Memphis Republican Mark White, the Tennessee House Education Administration Committee chairman who said exactly what needed to be said about t…
It becomes increasingly obvious that the game is all but over on the proposal to put a new Lookouts stadium on the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland foundry site on Sou…
As much as we'd like not to say this, COVID-19 is not gone.
It's great to see the results of people getting feisty when they don't like what politicians and civic leaders are doing. Take for example the aftermath of a r…
The big headline on the Chattanooga Times Free Press front page Thursday was clear: "Scenic City lands $4.9M in EPA money."
You must know something is wrong in Tennessee when Republicans can't find Republicans who are Republican enough for them. Even Republican teachers.
Go ahead, get mad. Get loud. Then vote.
Just as with abortion, our dangerous new majority Supreme Court didn't have to go beyond the case in front of it to decide a clean air case and endanger the ea…
Finally the community is getting more of a look at the proposed new Lookouts Stadium plan that calls for using a lot of our tax dollars - nearly $60 million ba…
Who would have thought a few decades ago that hard-fought-for equality for women would end with back-to-back Supreme Court rulings by a core of Ivy League, Chr…
The Erlanger board of trustees is clearly singleminded in its sprint to finish turning our public hospital - one of the nation's largest public hospital system…
The shooting in Chattanooga is still going. Police and news reports focused attention on the big ones - the nightclub and tourism spot shootings.
Bring out the long, red, hooded dresses made famous by "The Handmaid's Tale," the now-not-so-futuristic-and-dystopian book, movie and television series from au…
"We have to make reading fun. And what's better than reading about frog butts?" Breckan Duckworth, literacy officer for Hamilton County Schools, said in a rece…
Bill Kristol, whose political credits are long and stellar - he is a moderate conservative in an extreme-views world - has what he terms a reasonably optimisti…
If any group of people in the country needs to be watching the hearings of the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capit…
If you ever want to document the separation of the GOP from reality - much like that described by former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr as he testified recent…
Chattanooga and Hamilton County have always been ambitious about parks and greenspace.
It seems the stadium plan aimed at siphoning away our tax dollars won't go away.
A doctor's testimony to Congress on Wednesday about what he saw in a Uvalde, Texas, emergency room was devastating: The first two bodies he saw were "pulverize…
Here's one of biggest understatements of our week here in Chattanooga. And it's the lead of a very important story in Tuesday's Chattanooga Times Free Press.
"I'm tired of standing in front of you talking about guns and bodies."
Hamilton County's GOP mayoral primary was rightly certified last month by the Hamilton County Election Commission and later - rightly again - by the Tennessee …
Two good things have come from Chattanooga's second horrific mass shooting in a mere eight months.
Don't let anyone tell you your power bills are rising only because of inflation, increased natural gas prices and high costs of "clean" energy.
We made the national news again.
What's new to say about guns and mass violence in America? Nothing. Just dig some more graves and shut up.
Over this week, as we've waited for the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee to consider the challenge to the outcome of the Republican primary…
Firearms were the leading cause of death for children ages one and older for the first time in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio…
Time and again, we've written with regret about Tennessee's seemingly inexorable roll toward charter schools and school vouchers, which we generally see as sip…
Political insanity appears to be contagious.
With nationalism sweeping across too-big swaths of the country, it's hard to be surprised - horrified certainly - but hard to be surprised at incidents like th…
"Show me your papers!" That is the chilling authoritarian demand that became the first line in the 1942 movie "Casablanca" about encroaching Nazi control in Fr…
The "big lie" about an election has come to a mayor's office near you.
Last week, Hamilton County Commissioners got a visit from Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond, who was holding his hand out again, this time for a $6.5 million…
From the looks of the headlines about pending development in the Chattanooga area, conversations about ensuring many of us can afford to continue living here h…
As fatigued as we all are of COVID-19, it would be disrespectful today not to recognize and mourn the horrible milestone we'll likely cross by Monday - the dea…