Four-and-a-half months ago, a community benefits agreement between builders and developers constructing the new Chattanooga Lookouts baseball stadium in the South Broad District and a coalition of community organizations appeared to be dead.
In researching a non-election related topic recently, we reread the story of CBS newsman Roger Mudd's 1979 interview with Ted Kennedy ahead of the announcement that the Massachusetts senator would challenge President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Democratic primary.
Tennessee state legislators, coming out of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and troubled by scores on assessment tests, passed a measure in 2021 to emphasize the importance of literacy by insisting third graders be proficient in English language arts scores before moving on to fourth grade.
It's not even September, for goodness sake, and the number of students implicated in threats at area public schools is about ready to jump into double digits.
› A paid advertisement in this newspaper on Sunday by Dr. Edward L. Baker Jr., son of former 3rd District Congressman LaMar Baker, said he was "certain" that his father "would join others who have concluded that the current nominee of the Republican Party lacks the character and core values to lead our country."
The first-year Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) test results from Hamilton County students who received state Education Savings Account (ESA) money to attend private schools tell us we have been correct in suggesting the state continue the program as a pilot and not expand it across the state.
No timetable has been provided, but optional Choice Lanes on Interstate 24 around Lookout Mountain could be put on the drawing board within the next decade.
The days of officials holding more than one elected job in Hamilton County are coming to a close.
On the surface, Hillsdale College's goal of providing a network of classical charter schools that revive the American tradition of K-12 education is quite sound.
If Chattanooga Red Wolves owner Bob Martino wants to put Grandma on the street, it's perfectly within his right to do so.
