Opinion: Why is the Hamilton County Board of Education so afraid of Daddy?
Suppose you're a Hamilton County commissioner. And suppose you read in the Times Free Press on Tuesday that the Hamilton County Board of Education may come to …
Suppose you're a Hamilton County commissioner. And suppose you read in the Times Free Press on Tuesday that the Hamilton County Board of Education may come to …
Time's a-wasting. "Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key temperature mark by 2026," screams Tuesday's headline at the top of Page A5 in the Chattanooga Times…
Beyond thinking about specific stadium plans and wastewater treatment and how to improve schools, a city and a county like ours must have broader goals - broad…
Lost amid the election hubbub of the week were headlines about Gov. Bill Lee on Monday signing into law the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement Act.
Suppose a plane powered solely by solar power circumnavigated the Earth without using a drop of fuel.
The primary morning-after newness is starting to sink in, and with new political leaders springing up here like May flowers, it's a new day in Hamilton County,…
There is no greater testament to the adage, "election's matter," than today's screaming headline across the country about a leaked Supreme Court draft of a maj…
Voting locally is complicated these days. Far more complicated than calling yourself a Democrat or a Republican or an independent.
Sheriff Jim Hammond was described on this paper's front page Friday as "defiant" as he responded during a news conference to complaints that his department has…
It is always gratifying to hear the words Chattanooga and "new" or "2nd Volkswagen plant" in the same sentence, so this week's Times Free Press headline saying…
A 'crazy right wing' school board?
The May 3 Republican Democratic Primary is clearly drawing nigh, and the races that already were hot now are crackling with attempted one-ups, accusations, and…
Words at first seemed to fail us when we read in Tuesday's paper that the Tennessee General Assembly took a final vote Monday to criminalize homelessness.
Did you hear? Sabrena Smedley - when first elected eight years ago she was Sabrena Turner - is the daughter of former state Rep. Brenda Turner and the granddau…
Of nine county judgeships and one city judgeship on the May 3 primary ballot, only three are contested, and both of the county races offer candidates only on t…
Some political observers say school board races are the most important elected seats anywhere.
Voters have five Hamilton County Commission district primaries to decide this election season, and that means local government representation is up in the air …
The Hamilton County mayor's race - the first truly competitive county mayor's race here in decades - has been interesting from the very first moment 11-year Ma…
One of the hottest political races this primary season is for Hamilton County district attorney, who will serve for the next eight years.
If you're a Democrat or Democratic leaning in Hamilton County, your ballot in recent years has looked pretty lean.
Dear Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn: We have a question for you and your closest, disrespectful GOP colleagues.
Time is running out.
Perhaps you haven't noticed the weather warnings over the past week to be careful with fire because of high winds and low humidity - even just after night rain…
Here we go again. The homeless encampment off East 11th Street along the railroad tracks is in the crosshairs of the city and Norfolk Southern Railroad once mo…
Chattanooga's redistricting committee let this city down.
Not all COVID-19 news is bad news.
Almost five years ago, May 31, 2017, we made a note to ourselves about Chattanooga's Westside: "There is something wrong - just wrong - with starving Chattanoo…
History repeats itself. And so editorials repeat themselves.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Meet your twin/clone/sister in partisan stagecraft - Marsha Blackburn.
To borrow a cliche from another sport, it looks like the Chattanooga Lookouts - and proponents of a new baseball stadium largely free to the Lookouts' owners -…
There certainly are a lot of scared, angry men these days.
It's hard not to chortle at the gyrations of recent Hamilton County Board of Education meetings where members and watchers endured the board's "special book re…
We need more information. That appeared to be the consensus of our local Tennessee lawmakers on a proposal from Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly via Chattanooga's s…
Knoxville's Jordan Mollenhour is the founder and owner of Lucky Gunner, a Tennessee-based company established in 2009 that sells firearm ammunition online.
As do-gooder stories go, this one is a keeper: Chattanooga area church opens a coffee shop with no crosses, no symbols, no proselytising, no pressure to become…
Your elected Republican lawmakers in Washington want you to think President Joe Biden, not Vladimir Putin, is the bad guy in the Russia-Ukraine war, and they e…
It gets harder and harder these days to find many people in the Chattanooga area wearing a mask to guard against catching or giving COVID-19.
Robin Smith should have known better. As a state lawmaker, she surely knew it was wrong for an elected House of Representatives member to profit from the state…
It didn't take long for the nuclear threat of the Russian-Ukraine war to become real. It took less than one week.
Whenever the leaders of TVA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy start talking about partnerships, all of us should itch.
It may seem that Chattanooga mayors and leaders over recent years have thrown a bit of everything but the kitchen sink at trying a ease homelessness in our cit…
We have a suggestion for the multimillionaires who own the Lookouts and who want us to pay twice or three times for building them a new baseball stadium on the…
On the last day of February - and of Black History Month - the North Georgia town of Cohutta in Whitfield County was working to preserve its African American C…
"We're going to expose the humanity in each other by embracing what we have in common."
Thinking people among us would like to believe Vladimir Putin's brutal, bloody invasion of Ukraine might unite our American leaders no matter the color of thei…
The Tennessee Comptroller's Office, having found that Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston violated the Nepotism Act - one of the many state…
In between over-the-top conversation about God, their faith, and abortion, what you came away with from Monday evening's Republican Hamilton County mayoral can…
TVA's original 1933 purpose - set forth in the TVA Act - was to address the Tennessee Valley's most important issues in energy, environmental stewardship and e…
There is one thing that Tennessee's General Assembly is really good at - making laws which not only are solutions in search of a problem, but also solutions th…