Opinion: Make giving merry with your heart and your head
My family used to make fun of me because I'd start thinking of Christmas crafts and gifts I wanted to make for people in July. And I'd seriously get started on the tasks.
Opinion: Children’s Services crisis can’t wait. Do something now, Gov. Lee
Sad to say, no one should be surprised that Tennessee's Department of Children's Services is in shambles. Not just disarray. Not just poorly managed. In shambles. Again.
Opinion: Mayor Wamp is right that Chattanooga needs a big new downtown vocational/technical high school
We've heard it before and we'll likely hear it many more times: Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp say's he'll keep pushing in this coming year to build a vocational and technical high school in downtown Chattanooga where a new high school hasn't been built in more than 60 years.
Opinion: Chattanooga, Hamilton County proffer Christmas ‘peace of mind’ to Budgetel families
Finally — finally — the Hamilton County Commission put aside most of its acrimonious pandering and voted unanimously Wednesday to put $50,000 toward helping rehouse the families put out on the street just before Thanksgiving when the Budgetel in East Ridge was closed by court order.
Opinion: Will irrational fear be barrier to homeless and affordable housing?
With the increasingly depressing news of late about homelessness, and with too few local officials — except for Chattanooga city leaders — interested even in discussing it except to say "no" to affordable housing in their neighborhoods, a Sunday Page 1 story in the Chattanooga Times Free Press offered hope.
Opinion: Hamilton panel turns deaf ear to homeless help plea
The plea was straightforward. And Jon Berestecky with the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition got right to the point as he addressed the Hamilton County Commission last Wednesday.
Opinion: Will private school vouchers help or harm Hamilton students? We may see.
As if Hamilton County schools didn't face enough of an uphill battle, the climb is likely to get steeper still with a bill introduced by Tennessee Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, to expand the state's private school voucher law to include our students.
Opinion: ‘Dysfunctional,’ thy name is Hamilton County Commission
To say the more than two-hour meeting of the Hamilton County Commission this week was a head-shaking crash course in "dysfunctional" would be great understatement.
Opinion: Worried about homeless kids? Tell Congress to pass new child tax credits.
If you're thinking you've been reading a newspaper full of stories about local homelessness lately, you're not entirely wrong.
Opinion: When will the Taylor/Wamp feud end?
Like a children's game of name-calling, the feud over whether Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp can fire county attorney Rheubin Taylor smolders on — now six weeks long and counting.
