The sudden ouster of United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week brought to mind an equally quick political exit that occurred 50 years ago this week.
Fifty years ago last month, noted Chattanooga artist George Little released a painting, "Last Battle of the Revolution," which depicted a skirmish on Sept. 20, 1782, between John Sevier's 250 "Nolichucky Riflemen" and members of the British aligned Chickamauga Cherokee Indians.
A letter to an online news source takes state Rep. Yusuf Hakeem to task without mentioning his name about public school funding.
The Tennessee Aquarium has jumped into its first Chattanooga Pride Festival with both fins.
A search for more burial space for military veterans in Southeast Tennessee that has spanned more than 40 years and at least three 3rd District House members ended Tuesday with the announcement of the expansion of the Chattanooga National Cemetery to a lakefront site in Meigs County.
Nineteenth-century U.S. Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky once said he'd "rather be right than [be] president."
Some firsts are praiseworthy.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was the only candidate to take the bait.
If the people are paying attention, they may wonder about the wisdom of building a new gymnasium at a school which could be scheduled for closure in the near future.
It was the topic of conversation for the boys on the hallway wall, we sophomores who'd arrived at Brainerd High School before the first bell in the mid-September days of 1973.
