Let's give a big Texas hats off to Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and his staff for heading off at the pass Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the GOP's immigration-scare campaign when charter buses from the Lone Star State began to pass through our city. When the buses stopped to change drivers, some desperate asylum seekers got off -- looking for any help, direction and way closer to safety they could find.
Erlanger soon will be keep you -- and us -- even more in the dark than we all were before.
It hasn't been so long ago that Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and our new Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy talked positively about recruiting new police officers and beefing up the number of boots on the streets for law enforcement.
"It's like losing 20 pounds when you need to lose 100 pounds," said Robert McNally, the president of Rapidan Energy Group, an energy consulting firm. "And this won't get you there."
We are embarking - for better or worse - on a new era in Chattanooga. We're betting a lot of the farm on a minor league baseball stadium to be built with mostly public money and approved by all but one of today's sitting city and county officials. In less than a month newly elected county leaders will inherit the success or failure of our race to build the Chattanooga Lookouts a stadium on the hope that it will bring a rush of new development to the city's long deteriorated Southside.
Change is beginning.
We've said it before. Women will not go back. Nor will plenty of men. Kansas just proved it.
Whew! County elections are over.
What a wild end to an oddly entertaining county mayor's race.
Adding insult to injury as we desperately and unsuccessfully - so far - hope to be free of COVID-19, we now learn that we also have three cases of monkeypox confirmed in the Chattanooga area, according to a Tuesday announcement from the Hamilton County Health Department.
