Like politics, all climate is local, so let's get local. And let's get real. What will 2050 and beyond really look like on ordinary days here in the Chattanooga region?
Despite a number of people from across the county asking Hamilton County Commissioners to wait two more weeks for the public to digest redistricting maps that were changed in five districts just 30 minutes before, all six white Republican commissioners on the dais moved full steam ahead to approve the changes and send them to the state.
It is embarrassing to be a Tennessean today - after our GOP-controlled General Assembly members made fools of themselves in a special session to mandate that no one can mandate but them.
Seeing the groundbreaking Tuesday for an $8 million Chattanooga Construction Career Center for training building trades workers on the campus of the former Mary Garber elementary school in East Chattanooga was wonderful.
Parents, teachers and taxpayers in our Southeast Tennessee region have an opportunity next Thursday to spout off and suggest new approaches to Tennessee's nearly three-decade-old school funding formula known as the Basic Education Program - BEP, for short.
The historic W Road running from the Mountain Creek community to the top of Signal Mountain is a treasure - until you get sandwiched in a line of traffic after a tractor-trailer following a wayward GPS signal has become wedged in one of its rock-and-cliff-lined hairpin turns.
There's nothing - not even hashing out some redistricting maps - that can't be done with good old-fashioned hard work and transparency. Finally.
A bill filed in advance of this week's Tennessee General Assembly special session on COVID-19 says government agencies and businesses can require vaccinations for employees - but are barred from requiring any proof.
One late evening last winter, newly elected U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came bounding down a set of stairs and announced to a video camera: "Just finished with our meetings here at the White House. This afternoon we had a great planning session for our January 6 objection."
In 2014, Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger was seeking re-election for his first full term after being appointed to the seat in 2011 and winning an abbreviated term of office in a 2012 special election.
