Some big Chattanooga businesses ducked their heads last week when called on by Times Free Press reporters to comment on President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for employers with 100 or more workers.
Flushes are not free.
It seems fitting that 20 years after we launched war in Afghanistan because the country was said to harbor al Qaeda, the terrorist group founded by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, the 9/11 mastermind, that we are readying now - in Chattanooga and across the nation - to take in Afghan refugees who assisted the U.S. military during our no-win, ill-conceived, 20-year war.
The Volunteer State's "fetal heartbeat" measure, signed into law in July 2020 by Gov. Bill Lee, might have beaten Texas to the punch on severely restricting abortion were it not still on hold in the hands of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Tennesseans are always looking to be No. 1 at something: winning football, best tourist destination, most patriotic, most religious - pick one.
The snail darter - a little three-inch fish that nearly swallowed TVA's Tellico Dam and became the poster child for the Endangered Species Act - has officially been saved from extinction and removed from the nation's list of imperiled wildlife.
Saturday night in Shelbyville, Tennessee, 96 miles northwest of Chattanooga, some sore horse will likely be named the 83rd Tennessee Walking Horse world grand champion.
Finally, things are looking up in our Hamilton County public schools - even over a long year of pandemic distractions.
It's too soon to give Tennessee and Georgia governors the benefit of a doubt for coming around to seeing their mistakes on school masking and remote learning.
Lanny Thomas, a former mayor of Trion, Georgia, received the phone call every parent fears: The one from his child in trouble.
