Opinion: 'Needed' Tennessee broadband gets boost from 'unneeded' American Rescue Plan funds
Broad talk about expanding broadband throughout all of Hamilton County and much of Tennessee became more than just talk this week.
Broad talk about expanding broadband throughout all of Hamilton County and much of Tennessee became more than just talk this week.
Are you tired of shaking your head about all the on-again, off-again COVID-19 surges while Tennessee government officials wave away warnings? Join the club.
Isn't it interesting that many of our community leaders say there needs to be more conversation with the public about moving Erlanger from a governmental autho…
Careful, Hamilton County parents - actually, parents anywhere these days.
The political honeymoon may soon be ending for Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly, who is just shy of his one-year mark, come April 19, as our city's leader.
"This is about othering ... and control ... ."
It seems everyone keeps trying to tell us the terribly contagious virus and pandemic known as COVID-19 is moving into our rearview mirror.
Gov. Bill Lee's bid to add $1 billion to Tennessee's nearly $6 billion education budget sounds good on the surface.
Tennessee's proposed budget for fiscal 2023 is $52.6 billion - with 41 cents of every dollar to be spent on education.
Get ready to hear more squawks - and ads - from Tennessee and Georgia lawmakers and big business leaders about the vastly overstated evils of labor unions.
Among the few best things Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Monday night in his State of the State address was that with his proposed fiscal 2023 budget, he wants t…
Mayor Tim Kelly hit a home run in January. Maybe two. But certainly one.
On Monday evening, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will deliver his fourth State of the State address to the General Assembly and Tennessee.
There's a lot of good stuff going on right now - despite these stressful times. We don't often get to say this, but we relish the days when we do.
Sneaking in clearcutting plans and other dubious forest management goals around the holidays and coldest winter months clearly is gaining in popularity with ag…
"Due to multiple data points related to the impact of COVID-19 on operations," nine Hamilton County public schools are shifting to remote learning for the rest…
There's a really clear sign the Hamilton County District Attorney's race between incumbent Neal Pinkston and his GOP primary challenger Coty Wamp is going to b…
Martin Luther King would have turned 93 on Saturday had he not been killed by a sniper's bullet on April 23, 1968, as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis.
It was a hot time on this old Earth - all year long in 2021. It was the fifth-hottest year on record and one of the seven hottest on record in the past seven y…
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! How can you be so ridiculous? And so blatantly partisan, racist and stunningly hypocritical?
No wonder many Republicans, and especially Tennessee and Georgia Republicans, are trying to talk about anything other than coronavirus and particularly its eme…
It's bad enough that a segment of white Chattanooga worked for years to further disenfranchise - even run out - knowingly or unknowingly - thousands of Black f…
We say this often because it's true: All politics are local.
Jan. 6 has become a day so tragic that it - like 9/11 and the Dec. 7 - will remain both known and infamous simply by date alone.
Poor Marjorie Taylor Greene.
It wasn't enough that Tennessee's right-wing and wrongheaded leadership tried at every turn to handicap practical preventions for COVID-19, the increasingly in…
This is the time of year when everyone begins looking for a crystal ball. Or a Ouija board. Or both.
We had hopes of waxing happy about a new year beginning brightly for us on Jan. 1, 2022.
We all need help sometimes. Because life is good at throwing curveballs. Especially this year and last.
It is Christmas 2021, and it feels different this year.
In good and bad ways, this has been a catch-up week in our region, with some things long ignored at last being resolved, or at least refocused. Meanwhile, one …
Across Hamilton County, home to 374,826 residents, just over half of us - 53% - have received full vaccinations against COVID-19.
Got some last minute gift-giving to attend to?
After unemployment in Tennessee jumped to a record high 15.8% in April 2020, the jobless rate in Tennessee fell last month to 4% - the lowest since March 2020 …
Omicron is here. Omicron is the new and still mystery-shrouded variant of concern in the ever-evolving coronavirus.
Was it just another tornado? Or is it climate change?
You have to wonder if the right hand in Nashville knows what the left hand is doing - especially with our money.
In front of a packed room last week, the Hamilton County Election Commission promised more transparency in the next steps of a once-a-decade election precinct …
A lot is riding on the new Hamilton County schools superintendent: more than 44,000 students and their parents, 6,000 school employees and a $440 million budge…
In a year - and in the coming year - of leadership changes in Hamilton County, at least one new leader is chosen.
Statehouse observers report that some of our lawmakers are having second thoughts now about their barely month-old COVID-19 omnibus bill - the one they cobbled…
School board seats across the state are about be hot seats in the newest game of musical chairs dreamed up by the Tennessee General Assembly.
How many ways can we say this? It's inevitable. Here we go again. Let's hope this time is easier, but let's not count on it.
America doesn't make sense anymore.
This may be the day the Supreme Court turns this country on its head.
The Erlanger Board of Trustees' decision in October to remove the hospital's chief of staff is drawing concern from physicians even outside the health system. …
We learned last week that Tennessee Republicans in the statehouse were throwing cold water on a proposed congressional redistricting map drawn by state Democra…
"This Thanksgiving we're all in a very different circumstance: Things are a hell of a lot better," President Joe Biden mused to reporters with The Washington P…
We all know the story of this 400th anniversary of the "First Thanksgiving." Or at least we know the one we were taught.
Our governor and lawmakers always wave away questions about tax money by bragging that Tennessee has no income tax, a revenue surplus and a low cost of living.