Opinion: Take a moment to see some good stuff happening in Chattanooga and Tennessee
There's a lot of good stuff going on right now - despite these stressful times. We don't often get to say this, but we relish the days when we do.
Opinion: Don’t let so-called forest ‘protectors’ threaten and destroy our Tennessee, Georgia forests
Sneaking in clearcutting plans and other dubious forest management goals around the holidays and coldest winter months clearly is gaining in popularity with agencies charged with "conservation" protection - especially in Tennessee and Georgia.
Opinion: COVID doesn’t care who you voted for; stop giving it new life
"Due to multiple data points related to the impact of COVID-19 on operations," nine Hamilton County public schools are shifting to remote learning for the rest of the week, according to an announcement by the Hamilton County Department of Education. And several of the schools will remain virtual until next Tuesday, according to a news release from the schools department.
Opinion: Looking for a stemwinder election? Here it is
There's a really clear sign the Hamilton County District Attorney's race between incumbent Neal Pinkston and his GOP primary challenger Coty Wamp is going to be a doozy: Wamp, a former assistant DA who now serves as general counsel to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, already has picked up the endorsements of the two local police unions.
Opinion: Will Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama lawmakers please tell us what is so bad about voting rights?
Martin Luther King would have turned 93 on Saturday had he not been killed by a sniper's bullet on April 23, 1968, as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis.
Opinion: It was the fifth hottest year on Earth. Do something!
It was a hot time on this old Earth - all year long in 2021. It was the fifth-hottest year on record and one of the seven hottest on record in the past seven years.
Opinion: Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn embarrasses us yet again
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! How can you be so ridiculous? And so blatantly partisan, racist and stunningly hypocritical?
Opinion: While COVID cases, hospitalizations go up, Tennessee and Georgia officials try to fool you
No wonder many Republicans, and especially Tennessee and Georgia Republicans, are trying to talk about anything other than coronavirus and particularly its emerging variants.
Opinion: If understanding our neighbors is ‘social indoctrination,’ so much for the Ten Commandments.
It's bad enough that a segment of white Chattanooga worked for years to further disenfranchise - even run out - knowingly or unknowingly - thousands of Black families from our city.
Opinion: All politics, and systemic bias, are local
We say this often because it's true: All politics are local.
