Early voting in Hamilton County was down 9% for this year's county general and state primary compared to 2018. And in 2018, early voting was down 8.85% from four years before in 2014.
If you slept any at all last week, you might have missed news of the proposed new Lookouts baseball stadium in the South Broad Street area barreling ahead among local officials - even while much of Chattanooga and one of Hamilton County's mayoral candidates question the expenditure of nearly $80 million in public money to build a new sports temple. All this while developers and the Lookouts commit nothing upfront more than about 10 acres of donated land and standard yearly sports lease payments once the stadium opens.
Local and Tennessee Republicans are showing themselves to be just as low, disgusting and deceitful as national Republicans.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee just can't help himself - he keeps adding insult to injury for teachers and public schools in our state.
We've gotten loud. Now it's time to vote loud.
Already, we have seven decided school board members: Rhonda Thurman, District 1; Marco Perez, District 2; Tiffanie Robinson, District 4; Joe Wingate, District 7 - who were not up for election this term - and Gary Kuehn, District 9, who won in May and has no Democratic opposition in the Aug. 4 general election.
John Allen Brooks, an attorney in private practice here for 30 years and and a former Hamilton County commissioner, is far and away the best choice to be the next Hamilton County District Attorney.
Can't you almost smell the change in the political air at the Hamilton County Courthouse?
Come September, the Hamilton County Commission will bump from nine seats to 11 seats - thanks to the 2020 Census and the commission's vote to add seats thanks to redistricting.
For three-and-a half months, Hamilton County and Chattanooga taxpayers have been getting the hard sell by our mayors and other officials trying to persuade us that spending $80 million in public money up front for a new Lookouts' sports palace is a good idea.
