Against a backdrop of rising seas and extreme summer weather events averaging about one a week, the United States Senate is dithering about appointing new TVA board members for the nation's largest public utility.
Pardon us if we sound today like a broken record. But when a wheel is off-kilter, usually no one notices until it squeaks and grinds, squeaks and grinds, squeaks and grinds.
There's an apt new descriptor now for climate change -- zombie.
The remainder of 2022, and likely 2023 as well, will be the perfect time for Hamilton County residents to begin paying more attention to our local leaders. Why? Because Chattanooga and Hamilton County's new leadership from the top down is unfolding in front of us right now.
The email letter went out Tuesday announcing "A new era begins Thursday."
Here is a challenge for every elected city, county and state official in Hamilton County: Expend as much energy fighting to find public money -- or issue bonds and go into debt, whatever it takes -- on Hamilton County schools and students as you recently threw around like confetti to celebrate your intense determination to build a $79.5 million stadium for the wealthy owners and investors of the Chattanooga Lookouts.
The New York Times' COVID-19 mapping and coverage had a new twist for us Friday: On the paper's "hot spots" map, Tennessee lit up like a hot red bullseye.
Why is it that Chattanooga's so-called conservatives seem to collectively lose their minds over diversity, equity and immigrants?
In school performance, is the glass half empty or half full? But perhaps a more important question is what have our teachers most recently been tasked with doing?
All over the news in recent days we've seen commentary exalting or decrying the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act, aimed primarily at lowering inflation through health and environmental costs -- some later rather than sooner, and even as more news rolls in of the record ice melts in Greenland and from the Alps in Europe.
