We can't imagine President Donald Trump being willing to share space with mere mortals like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
How free is Chattanooga?
One hundred years ago this week, in an address to the Chattanooga Rotary Club, attorney W.L. Frierson offered a patriotic address stressing the need for the support of law enforcement and on the ill-advised need to tinker with the U.S. Constitution.
One hundred and twenty years ago, a novel was published to, among other things, highlight the inhumane conditions in the slaughter of cattle at the Chicago stockyards.
The revelation over the past week that McDonald Farm got a sniff as a potential site for a $3 billion pharmaceutical manufacturing facility may make Hamilton County taxpayers wonder what they will get for the $16 million the county paid for the 2,100-acre site above Sale Creek.
Got a comment on one of my editorials, one of the commentaries on this page or a story in this newspaper? If so, I'd like to hear from you and perhaps include our dialogue in this space in our Saturday paper. In the meantime, here are my thoughts on a few things happening in our area this week.
We'll always side with more sunshine.
The new Hamilton County Republican Party will get an opportunity to show its chops in 2026 since three members of the Hamilton County Board of Education, including its two most senior members, will not be running for election next year.
Increasingly but not surprisingly, United States elections turn on the economy. Indeed, the popularity of the president in nonelection years often slides up or down depending on the performance of the economy.
We haven't heard of protests against Ridgedale Baptist Church building a transitional home for children entering the state foster care system, though maybe the naysayers are out there.
