A year ago, as 2024 began, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was the favorite of 33.3% of voters for the Republican presidential nomination and appeared to be ascending in popularity.
The list of notable Chattanooga area residents who died in 2024, published in this paper earlier this week, should have included the names of Fred Skillern and Moses Freeman.
When the 5-year-old Walmart Neighborhood Market near the corner of Shallowford and North Moore roads closed in March 2021, the corporate word was that it was "an under performing store that no longer meets our thresholds."
Because Americans are a forgiving and generous people, presidents who have less-than-successful administrations often have rich and fruitful second lives.
When the Times Free Press annually ask readers to help us select the top stories of the year, the newspaper routinely confines our list to stories from the metropolitan Chattanooga area and Tennessee.
If a majority of Hamilton County's 80 schools received A's on their state report card, would district officials still say the state report card is a pretty narrow way to look at schools? We hope one day to find out.
If U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary-designee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has his way about removing fluoride for the country's water systems, residents in Soddy-Daisy can say they were ahead of the curve.
A business owner's right to make a business decision based on personal beliefs is a difficult line to walk today.
Tennessee public high school students can breathe a slight sigh of relief knowing that their end-of-course exams next spring will no longer count as much as 25% of their final grade in their English, math, science or social studies.
Carol Berz was elected to Chattanooga City Council with only 29% of the vote in a special election in 2008, but nobody laid a glove on her after that.
