While you were asleep Friday night, the Senate passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, which was signed later in the day by President Joe Biden.
Hamilton County is not yet one of the 36 Tennessee school districts that recently filed lawsuits against social media companies demanding accountability and action, but parents of local students who have been hurt in some way by posts on such platforms may put pressure on the district to do so.
A decade ago, then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam was pushing his Drive to 55 initiative, which had a goal of 55% of Tennesseans earning a post-high school degree or advanced certificate by 2025.
If we didn't know better, we'd think the report came from the satirical publication The Onion.
Donald Trump won 60.7% of the vote in Tennessee in the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, including 54.6% in Hamilton County in 2016 and 53.6% in 2020.
The Chattanooga City Council is expected to consider a resolution today applying for a $500,000 federal Corridor Identification and Development Program grant which would look into bringing passenger rail service back to the city.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is seeking community feedback on what to do with its 1,149,000-square-foot, five-building, nearly 40-year-old downtown complex, and it wants your opinion.
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly evidently is satisfied Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy only has a paperwork problem.
With the revival of a school vouchers bill in the Georgia General Assembly this week, school choice proposals have been, are, or will be in discussion in all three corners of the Tri-State area.
We think the state Board of Education is onto something with a resolution last week urging Gov. Bill Lee and state legislators to focus earlier on struggling readers.
