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Opinion: Walmart’s DEI about-face properly emphasizes helping everyone belong
Will your holiday shopping be affected by a retailer's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs?
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Opinion: You can offer a hand at a time ‘when Want is keenly felt’
Americans were living well in 1924.
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Opinion: 72 years of better oral health, thanks to fluoride, not a bad track record
A.F. Porzelius, the manager of the Chattanooga City Water Company, was opposed to fluoridating the city's water supply in 1952, but he said the citizens of the area demanded it as a deterrent to tooth decay in children.
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Opinion: Book some reading time with these suggestions for holidays or as an election distraction
Looking for distractions after an election that didn't go your way (or maybe even if it did)? Need Christmas present suggestions for your favorite book lover? Open to ideas for something a little different to watch?
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Opinion: Cooper’s Corner – School board approves plan to combine design, construction for building projects
Hamilton County Board of Education members approved a plan Thursday night that would allow the county to develop a school construction process similar to what TDOT is using on the local interstate project and elsewhere across the state.
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Opinion: Memphis unlikely to win on approved gun safety reforms, but are legislators watching?
To what lengths can cities in Tennessee go to keep their citizens safe?
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Opinion: TBI director’s warning doesn’t mean we should run out and add to the arsenal
Like it or hate it, when Fox News is on, Americans are watching.
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Opinion: License changes for noncitizens may be next legislative session’s flag controversy
Last year, we flagged – pun intended – an unusual bill well before the 2024 Tennessee legislature met as one that was likely to stir controversy. And we weren't wrong.
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Opinion: County can’t expect to keep taxes low and maintain inefficient, low-capacity schools
It's the argument that won't go away, isn't it?
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Opinion: Cooper’s Corner – Will Trump Train get in way of latest train revival idea in Tennessee?
City Hall officials were none to happy, we're told, when we detailed in April at least $16 million in federal funds, at least $3.5 million in state money and nearly $2 million in city funds that had been spent over the last quarter century for various rail proposals, none of which had legs.
