Opinion: What is your best return-on-college-investment in Tennessee?
Fifty-five years ago when a neighbor wanted to offer some career advice to recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) in the movie "The Graduate," he said this:
Opinion: Tennessee expands programs for foster care, adoptions as heartbeat law goes into effect
Critics of Tennessee's heartbeat abortion law that went into effect following the United States Supreme Court's Dobbs decision this summer argue it eventually will lead to a sharp rise in children in foster care.
Opinion: NAEP scores indiciate learning loss mitigation efforts may not be working for Tennessee students
What's called the "nation's report card" was released for 2022 Monday, and it's not one Tennessee wants to bring home to show Mom and Dad.
Opinion: County should rethink civil service system resolution for some county employees
We hope Hamilton County commissioners will rescind or rethink the resolution they passed last week that seeks to set up a civil service system for some county employees.
Opinion: Wamp, commissioners: Break your impasse and get on with county business
The Hamilton County Commission inaugurated on Sept. 1 forcefully showed this week it intends to be a co-equal partner in county government for the next four years.
Opinion: Parents’ campaigns imbued Morty Lloyd with desire to serve his community
A fall doesn't go by, the leaves begin to turn or the air get crisp when Morty Lloyd doesn't think about the 10 congressional campaigns over 20 years in which he helped his mother, Marilyn Lloyd, with her election to and re-elections to the U.S. House.
Opinion: $16 million road secures Aetna Mountain’s transformation from moonshine to (future) mansions
Everything was all sunshine and Santa Claus at the opening of a new $16 million road up Aetna Mountain Thursday, but the mood belied the battle of more than a decade to build the road.
Opinion: School facility needs critical, but academics are in a crisis
The Hamilton County Schools does have a deferred maintenance problem, to be sure, but we think the district's academic problems are an even bigger priority.
Opinion: After Democrats compare Trump to Hitler, they want to censure Greene for doing the same with Biden
We have made it clear frequently that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents the folks just over the line in Georgia in Congress, is not the type of Republican we'd prefer to have representing us.
Opinion: A vote for Amendment 2 will enshrine temporary assumption of the governor’s duties in case of incapacitation
Tennessee governors, as a lot, have been a hearty sort.
