As recently as 2017, Tennessee was listed as third among states most reliant on federal aid, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Tax Foundation.
In the same week the Hamilton County Commission turned down a $400,000 loan that the City of Red Bank requested to cover a county assessor's office error, it gave an additional $500,000 to the Humane Educational Society budget.
It wasn't exactly "Ford to City: Drop Dead," the 1975 New York Daily News headline after President Gerald Ford rejected a bailout for New York City, but it wasn't exactly a warm fuzzy warning, either.
While Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Rachel Campbell was trying to rally her troops for a mid-state congressional upset in a special U.S. House election Tuesday, the Hamilton County Democratic Party, which she previously chaired, was falling apart.
Having read the handwriting on the wall, Volkswagen has announced a blip in its all-electric future.
Despite shelves full of books I've bought and haven't read, and books loved ones have bought me and I haven't read, I've asked for more books for Christmas.
Chattanoogans young and old, new to the area or here all their lives, have much to be thankful for in this city on a day when we all pause to give thanks.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, in announcing her January 2026 resignation Friday, has cast herself as a martyr in Trumpworld.
Fifty years ago, CARTA board member E.Y. Chapin said he didn't know how the transportation agency could keep going with climbing deficits and suggested "an orderly phaseout."
It will be interesting to see what comes of the lawsuit filed Thursday challenging the constitutionality of Tennessee's Education Freedom Act, now in its first year.
