Nine years ago this month, the agency then called the Chattanooga Convention & Visitors Bureau was questioned about its lack of oversight and lavish spending habits by then-Hamilton County Commissioner Tim Boyd.
Less than a week before Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration in January 2025, officials from the outgoing Biden General Services Administration said a Vine Street location would be the most advantageous for a new Chattanooga federal courthouse that had been promised for nearly 30 years.
By the time Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger left office in 2022, officials knew the nearly 2,100-acre McDonald Farm he urged the county to buy for $16 million for manufacturing purposes was either largely unsuited for manufacturing or would cost an exorbitant amount to retrofit for that purpose.
Don't expect the type of fireworks in May's Hamilton County primary election as we saw four years ago.
If the Tennessee Valley Authority bent any further backward trying to please President Donald Trump, it would fall.
Churches often were the genesis of public protests during the civil rights era, but what are the ramifications when a protest breaks into a public worship service?
How dare Hamilton County Board of Education members become proactive about growth.
We noticed national Democrats were fundraising online last week and imploring their media mouthpieces to detail the horrors of the Make Elections Great Again bill, which was introduced in the United States House.
If Volkswagen and the United Auto Workers reached an agreement on a contract, and VW improved its "last, best and final" offer and the union says it didn't get everything it wanted, that's how negotiations are supposed to work, right?
Hamilton County Commissioner Lee Helton, R-East Brainerd, says the country is not meant to have career politicians, and he aims to make that the rule for the county mayor and commissioners.
