We don't know what kind of concerts the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Tivoli Foundation have in mind for Erlanger Park, but we'd direct them to the wayback machine for a visit to 1982.
U.S. Rep. John Rose, R-Cookeville, had one last thought on his mind before he left the newspaper office last week. And it had nothing — well, almost nothing — to do with his bid to be the next governor of Tennessee.
As long as there are courts to hear them and appeals to be filed, the congressional redistricting map the Tennessee General Assembly passed in an extraordinary session earlier this month is not a sure thing.
It was late March, and most of the Tennessee congressional delegation was arrayed around President Donald Trump at his desk aboard Air Force One. They were flying back to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland from Memphis, where the president had gone to check out the Memphis Safe Task Force he had deployed.
It would have been easy for Chattanooga City Council member Chip Henderson to have looked into the matter after he was initially elected in 2013 and told his constituents that it simply was a bridge too far to run a waterline up Raccoon Mountain to serve the limited number of houses there.
Until babies are implanted with an internet connectivity chip at birth — we jest, we jest — we suspect there will be discussions about the right amount students should be able to use digital devices in public schools.
When Ruth Webb died in 2007, she thought the story on her late brother, Jack Clark, her only sibling, had been written.
It's been common knowledge for the past five years that Tennessee is one of top states in the country where people relocate.
On Thursday, the Times Free Press reported that Mark Herndon, the Democratic candidate for mayor in August's Hamilton County election, is being sued by a bank for missing payments on a recreational vehicle he purchased.
Police everywhere too often get a bad rap for a rogue cop here and there, but we believe Chattanooga is fortunate to have a force — and leadership — dedicated to keeping the city off those "worst" and "dangerous" lists from now on.
