Why would U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, freshly elected to a second term, return home to run for governor in 2026, as news reports have suggested are increasingly likely?
The decision by the United States General Services Administration (GSA) to locate a new federal courthouse on a 4-acre block on Vine Street reminds us of the original decision to move the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Center to ... Moccasin Bend.
If the Education Freedom Act is, as officials have said, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's and the General Assembly's top priority this year, it doesn't make sense to shoehorn its passage into a special session that also includes two other sensitive issues.
Hamilton County commissioners evidently have found a way they can put attorney Janie Parks Varnell on the payroll without ruffling the feathers of Hamilton County Attorney Rheubin Taylor.
It's an investment that will not pay off for years, if ever, but it's an investment in local students that a number of Chattanooga nonprofits and the city of Chattanooga believe is worth making.
When the head of the University of Tennessee system suggests that the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga may not have done the best job of selling itself, one should at least acknowledge he has some standing to have that impression.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, has sent President-elect Donald Trump a letter saying he ought to scrap the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Just over a quarter century ago, Americans couldn't imagine that one day more than 95% of teenagers would have, or have access to, a cellphone, much less bring one to school.
The potential of 1,175 jobs and $2.1 billion in investment is significant in whatever city and whatever manufacturing sector are involved.
If you listened to one side of the debate, you'd think the only people who had a problem with any aspect of public education in Tennessee were Neanderthal, backwoods, gun-toting, book-banning, Bible-thumping Republican conspiracy theorists.
