We're glad no one put a final "hold" on the decision to award Signal Mountain's Larry Taylor the Medal of Honor for his actions in Vietnam 55 years ago.
Three years ago this week, the residual crimes from the June protests in Chattanooga over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody were still occurring.
Fifty years ago, the thrust by Black Chattanooga activists was that the city put into practice the federal Fair Housing Act passed by Congress in 1968 and the open-housing ordinance passed by the then-Chattanooga City Commission in 1971.
We find the headline of a Beacon Center of Tennessee poll released Thursday rather ho-hum because it tells us what we and most people in the state already know — that former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden are easily the leading candidates for their party's 2024 nomination among Volunteer State voters.
Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp said if he had it to do all over again, regarding his attempt to fire Hamilton County Attorney Rheubin Taylor, he would have changed some things "in terms of timing, conversations" and what he shared with county commissioners.
Tennessee's Office of Legislative Administration could use an abundance of sunshine.
Over the years, much has been written and spoken about the state of Hamilton County schools, much of it bemoaning how teachers have it better elsewhere, what poor shape the schools are in and how the county is not getting its "fair share" — whatever that means — from (pick one) the county, state or federal government.
Keep the pedal to the metal.
Just over a decade ago, Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield was frankly and good-naturedly hoping the Scenic City would sooner rather than later pass Knoxville in population and become the third largest city in Tennessee.
A report released Monday by the Sycamore Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, indicates that gun deaths are on the rise in Tennessee.
