Three cheers for Memphis Republican Mark White, the Tennessee House Education Administration Committee chairman who said exactly what needed to be said about the Hillsdale College president who spent two hours belittling teachers and educators during a June appearance with Gov. Bill Lee in Franklin.
It becomes increasingly obvious that the game is all but over on the proposal to put a new Lookouts stadium on the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland foundry site on South Broad Street using $80 million in public money.
As much as we'd like not to say this, COVID-19 is not gone.
It's great to see the results of people getting feisty when they don't like what politicians and civic leaders are doing. Take for example the aftermath of a recent reveal of teacher insults from Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn - and the silence from Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee.
The big headline on the Chattanooga Times Free Press front page Thursday was clear: "Scenic City lands $4.9M in EPA money."
You must know something is wrong in Tennessee when Republicans can't find Republicans who are Republican enough for them. Even Republican teachers.
Go ahead, get mad. Get loud. Then vote.
Just as with abortion, our dangerous new majority Supreme Court didn't have to go beyond the case in front of it to decide a clean air case and endanger the earth. But it did.
Finally the community is getting more of a look at the proposed new Lookouts Stadium plan that calls for using a lot of our tax dollars - nearly $60 million based on a rundown in Thursday's paper - in the name of catalyzing "development" in the South Broad area of Chattanooga.
Who would have thought a few decades ago that hard-fought-for equality for women would end with back-to-back Supreme Court rulings by a core of Ivy League, Christian conservative justices that would suggest gun toters have more freedoms than the half of Americans who can, should they choose, birth babies?
