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Opinion: What’s in a name? Could ‘Silverdale’ be out of the jail business?
It happens frequently in the retail world.
Opinion: Miss election signs yet? March 2024 ballot will pack a punch with presidential primaries and local showdowns
Hope you've enjoyed a 2023 free of election signage. Within six months, you'll likely see them popping up all over Hamilton County again. A year from today, they'll be everywhere.
Opinion: Hamilton County school board needs a workshop on student grading policies; it’s long overdue
We remember a few of those math tests where the concepts — be they fractions, coefficients or slopes — hadn't quite settled in place. A grade in the 50s would have been a godsend.
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Opinion: Hamilton County Schools district TCAP scores beat statewide scores in four main subjects, but troubling racial gaps persist
The Hamilton County Schools district accentuated the positive in its comments about the TCAP data released last week by the Tennessee Department of Education, and this year there was more positive to accentuate than there was to paper over.
Opinion: Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute’s relocation on the peninsula would be a disappointing choice
A proposal to rebuild Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute on a smaller footprint further around the Tennessee River bend from its current site on the state-owned facility's existing property is tremendously disappointing.
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Opinion: Haze, eh? Smoky import not our favorite from Canada, but it’s not a bad short-term trade-off
If forecasts are correct, by the time you read this the smoke from wildfires in Canada will have dissipated from our area and the air quality in Chattanooga will have improved.
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Opinion: Felon voting rights roulette upheld by Tennessee Supreme Court
We suppose it's no different from states setting their own policies on education, abortion, infrastructure and how economic activity takes place, but we have some sympathy for the former Virginia man whose clemency in that state wasn't enough to be able to register and vote in Tennessee.
Opinion: Census Bureau data tool shows our vulnerable communities bear the brunt of extreme heat
The more socially vulnerable a community is, the less resistance its residents have to extreme heat exposure.
Opinion: Revamp round two: I-75/I-24 project likely to be a bumpy ride, but we will survive
Let the grumbling begin.
Opinion: Watch out for the other guy; Tennessee’s ‘best roads’ also among the most deadly
As Chattanooga gears up for phase two of work on the Interstate 24-Interstate 75 interchange, once called the state's worst intersection, a new study indicates Tennessee has the ninth most deadly roads in the country.
