We've all read the newspaper, seen television news or scanned online posts that describe a perpetrator's fourth domestic violence conviction, eighth firearm conviction or fifth restraining order violation conviction and receive what we believe is a light sentence.
We'll believe a deal on a mixed-use new stadium in the South Broad District is final when the Chattanooga City Council and Hamilton County Commission vote affirmatively on new spending for the project, when signatures are affixed to bottom lines of contracts and when bonds for construction are issued.
Some residents living nearby had environmental concerns.
Like so many other pieces of legislation introduced by a party not in power, or when there is divided government, we don't expect this one to go very far.
Donald Trump may not have started it, but he deserves a lot of the credit for conservatives' descent in recent years into the policy of if-you're-not-for-me, you-must-be-against-me.
The let's-make-the-Bible-the-state-book folks are back with a new wrinkle.
By the time Tennessee's presidential primary six weeks from today gets here, the combatants in the 2024 race may be a foregone conclusion.
A Times Free Press Business section-front headline last Wednesday stated: "Top Federal Reserve official says inflation fight seems nearly won."
In the end, the school facilities plan recommended last August by a working group of Hamilton County leaders provided two things — a reasoned blueprint for action over the next seven years and potential for a community conversation that could refine that blueprint.
The United States House of Representatives has long been tagged "the people's house" because the framers of the Constitution saw it as the side of the legislative branch most attuned to the needs of ordinary citizens.
