The crusading state legislators who head to Nashville and believe they'll pass all or most of the legislation they can dream up will quickly have those dreams dashed.
Although the races for seats on the Hamilton County Board of Education are now partisan, thanks to a law passed by the state legislature in 2021, the issues on the minds of all candidates should revolve around schools, students, parents, safety, policies and funding — not R's and D's.
If it were up to Hamilton County Commissioner David Sharpe, Hamilton County government would go back to the future.
A New York Times newsletter on Tuesday put the name of Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty in the second tier of potential vice presidential running mates for presumed Republican nominee Donald Trump.
A new Pew Research Center report may provide some indication of why people who have great reservations about voting for Donald Trump for president may yet decide to do so. They just can't see themselves aligning with President Joe Biden and Democrats on issues related to marriage, traditional values, abortion, sexuality and the role of religion in American life.
On Tuesday in a courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware, Hunter Biden — son of the president of the United States — was found guilty on three gun charges, while 658 miles away in a courtroom in Hamilton County, Chattanooga Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod was found innocent — in a manner of speaking — of residency fraud.
Thirty years ago this summer, something was brewing in Hamilton County.
Three years ago, it was a crisis. Today, the crisis seems to have been forgotten.
As Alice said in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," things are getting "curiouser and curiouser."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, once a Montgomery, Alabama, public interest law firm that has morphed into what one author called a "left-wing smear factory," has added to its "Hate Map" a family policy council run by a former Chattanooga state senator.
