Opinion: Does Chattanooga government have to be reinvented every mayoral term?
Does Chattanooga city government need to be reorganized every eight years or every time a new mayor is elected?
Opinion: Bobby Wood was a ‘perfect example’ of a citizen state legislator
It sounds almost quaint today — that somebody would pitch their character as an attribute for public office. But that's what Bobby Wood did.
Opinion: UTC an institute of higher learning where fortunately both Dinesh D’Souza and Angela Davis are welcome
The keynote speaker for Martin Luther King Day later this month for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Office of Multicultural Affairs has been an unapologetic communist, was once on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted," was once charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy (and acquitted), and was called by the then-president of the United States a "dangerous terrorist."
Opinion: It’s come to this: Tennessee legislature to ponder gender-related medical procedures on minors
Mere days after its official introduction, a bill in the Tennessee General Assembly that would prohibit health care providers from performing a medical procedure that would enable a minor to identify with, or live as, someone different from the minor's sex is already attracting attention.
Opinion: Hamilton County commissioners never questioned county attorney Rheubin Taylor, his contract or his office when they had the chance
Two years ago, for the first time in 28 years, a Hamilton County commissioner had a concern about the reappointment process of Hamilton County attorney Rheubin Taylor.
Opinion: Discipline data at odds with parent, teacher experience
Concerns were raised Monday in the Disciplinary Committee of the Hamilton County Board of Education that the number of disruptive classes in county schools is growing.
Opinion: Providing social services to intervene in violence sounds like goal of VRI, which had only mixed success
Call us skeptical.
Opinion: Local power customers wonder why if demand is smaller, why power wasn’t there when they needed it
Chattanooga power customers have complained mightily -- and not without good reason -- about the Tennessee Valley Authority's rolling electricity blackouts that plagued them in the days before Christmas last month.
Odd that guns bad but abortions OK and more letters to the editors
The Monday (Jan. 2) editorial from the Florida Sun-Sentinel on the left side of the TFP editorial pages is another example of the left's obsession with guns and fake concern for children.
Opinion: Call them toll roads or ‘Choice Lanes,’ but they should be a last option in Tennessee
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee earlier this week unveiled his "Build With Us" transportation plan that includes what have been called "Choice Lanes."
