A month, six weeks, or perhaps two months in the future, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp can see an end to the morass involving County Attorney Rheubin Taylor's employment.
When the Tennessee legislature convenes a week from today, abortion is likely to be a much discussed topic during the session.
When Chattanooga Daily Times readers opened their morning paper on Aug. 23, 1923, there, above the fold, was a headline that must have grabbed their attention:
In the news business, we're all too familiar with the tragic, the violent, the shocking, the sad and the outrageous. We say it ledes, it gets clicks, it gets views, it gets shares, it gets talked about. But in our hearts, we all long to hear good news, don't we? The found puppy, the miracle cure, the rags-to-riches story, the tearful reunion.
If the mid-December debate about the Hamilton County Commission spending $50,000 to assist residents suddenly put out of their temporary homes at the Budgetel Inn in East Ridge had been about the need to buy a widget, the kerfuffle would have made more sense.
"When I tell you this is the most kosher thing that's ever happened," Chattanooga Councilwoman Carol Berz said of the city's redistricting process following the 2020 census, "it is."
Four years after Chattanooga was founded in 1839, Charles Dickens in his book "A Christmas Carol" had two men visit Ebeneezer Scrooge at his business and solicit money for the poor from him.
Who didn't see this coming?
I'll take a break from breaking news today to offer any last-minute Christmas shoppers a few ideas for their favorite non-fiction book reader.
State officials should consider the ongoing failures in the Tennessee Department of Children's Services as an emergency.
