The nearly 75-year-old Elbert S. Long School building, which most recently housed Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts (CSLA), is nearly just a memory as its demolition at the corner of East Brainerd and Vance roads is nearly complete.
Georgians are hoping Derek Dooley won't do for their state what he did to college football next door in Tennessee.
It seems clear from last week's Chattanooga City Council meeting that city residents should expect a property tax increase. The question is, how much?
Does the Chief John Ross House belong in Rossville, Georgia, where it sits today near where it was built in 1797 (or the mid-1810s, depending on whom you believe), or in Oklahoma, where Ross led detachments of Cherokee following the Trail of Tears removal from the Tennessee Valley in the 1830s?
If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Every few years, either pitched as a new idea by sociologists or in legislation introduced in Congress, is the concept of providing direct federal government cash payments to families.
Many Native Americans in the United States say they feel unseen because they live on the same reservations where their ancestors were forcibly moved to generations ago, because those reservations are often in remote, rural areas, because they've been discriminated against in areas such as education and health care, and because they've often been misrepresented or overlooked in today's culture.
"The Morning" newsletter of The New York Times had an interesting take on the state of the Democratic Party earlier this week, saying that perhaps there is a "glimmer of hope" for the party that many say is in tatters.
The rejoinder from Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly earlier this week came as if shot out of a cannon — no, to eliminating the city's curbside recycling service.
With the blizzard of declassified documents coming out of Washington, if you weren't paying attention, you might be tempted to conclude that financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was killed because he had information on the hoax attempting to tie Donald Trump and the 2016 presidential campaign to Russia, which had ordered the 1963 death of President John F. Kennedy, who had given the order that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. be killed five years hence because he had damning information on the Clintons.
