Only four days remain to vote for Chattanooga as America's Best Outdoor City. It's down to us and Port Angeles, a city of 19,000 on the Washington coast near Olympic National Park. We have catfish. They have orca whales.
Hamilton County school board members, gird yourselves.
A mean, hardhearted Jewish boy is walking down the street when he sees his rabbi.
"Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men." -- Gospel of Matthew
Memorial Day is a good and proper time to ask: Can war ever end?
In 1961, the philosopher Hannah Arendt traveled to Jerusalem to witness the trial of Nazi chief Adolf Eichmann, the man behind the logistics of the Holocaust.
At 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, schools Superintendent Rick Smith goes before the Hamilton County mayor and commission to present his budget, which asks for $34 million more to, as Smith puts it, make our public schools the best in the South.
Several months ago, Dr. Elaine Swafford spoke at Baylor School's annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
In 2011, Destin Sisemore, the smartest kid in high school, was walking across the Lake-view-Fort Oglethorpe graduation stage with valedictory honors and five offers from Ivy League universities.
As an alum, I'm proud of Red Bank High School. It's a National School of Excellence. Many National Merit scholars. State championship teams. An unforgettable faculty.
