The Hamilton County Board of Education placed school capacity right where it ought to be Thursday night — in the middle of any discussion about infrastructure.
President Donald Trump's prime time speech to the American people Wednesday night was everything his supporters might have wanted — and everything his detractors might have expected.
Most of us grew up with advice that went something like this: If you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all.
If every Hamilton County school had a Turning Point USA chapter because every school wanted a chapter, we'd say have at it.
Fifty years ago this week, in putting the final touches on its 1976 budget, the Chattanooga City Commission made it official by including money for studies for a new downtown bridge across the Tennessee River.
Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Dr. Justin Robertson put the expected spin on the district's 2025 ACT score earlier this week, but the truth is county students haven't made much progress on the national standardized test in nearly a decade and a half.
If Germany were invaded, just 38% of its citizens would be willing to fight for their country, according to a recent poll. Fifty-nine percent would not. In Italy, another poll found that only 16% of those of fighting age would take up arms. In France, Gen. Fabien Mandon, the army's chief of staff, told a conference of mayors last month that the nation would be "at risk" if it "wavers because we are not ready to accept losing our children." This statement of the obvious set off a political furor.
We're not surprised a recent Vanderbilt poll found only 41% of Tennesseans rated the United States economy as "fairly" or "very" good
Gerald McCormick tackled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) the way he did legislation in the Tennessee House — with full force.
The sticky wicket of hiring public school teachers in Tennessee got stickier when a 2019 state law was passed that requiring districts to have educator diversity goals — and stickier still when it repealed the law earlier this year and said school districts shouldn't use race in hiring decisions.
