With all of the headlines about Tennessee lawmakers squashing COVID-19 prevention, it would be easy to be lulled into thinking our leaders are making these decisions because the threat of COVID-19 is a thing of the past.
Being America's highest-paid federal employee is nice work if you can get it.
Why does everything have to be about party politics?
The public - that means you, readers - has less than a month now to comment on a U.S. Forest Service project twice the size of Atlanta dubbed the Foothills Landscape Project.
Gov. Bill Lee, with his assurance Wednesday to reporters that he will sign the shameful COVID-19 state omnibus bill which purports to mandate against federal and local mandates, has come full circle.
Just when we thought perhaps the squabbling about Hamilton County redistricting was over, several members of the school board on Wednesday acted as though they'd slept through the whole thing and woke up to see they are being bulldozed by Hamilton Commission Chairwoman Sabrena Smedley and her GOP commission colleagues just like everyone else.
As President Joe Biden says: "Finally! Infrastructure Week!"
Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger was about as accusatory as he ever gets publicly last week he spoke about the fact that not one member of the county's legislative delegation, or anyone from the governor's office or the state health department, sought his input they shaped and passed a bill to gut the county's ability to make its own decisions on how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March of 2019, "Chattanooga's Next Great Neighborhood" was unveiled as the city's new West End, but now called The Bend.
Gov. Bill Lee should veto the big anti-mask and anti-vaccine "omnibus" bill - or at least parts of it - that Tennessee lawmakers blustered to pass last week.
