In the space of a long Thanksgiving weekend, we've pushed away from overfilled tables, dashed out to swarm through Black Friday sales with thousands of like-minded shoppers, watched football until our eyes swelled shut, then surfed the gazillion Cyber Monday come-ons.
Somewhere around 700 people were made homeless in the week before Thanksgiving when East Ridge police, armed with a Hamilton County court order, closed the Budgetel on Mack Smith Road based on criminal and nuisance complaints.
It's Thanksgiving in Chattanooga, and we've just had 700 people tossed out into the cold.
What seems like "the perfect storm" for Howard School is on us -- taxpayers, parents, school board members and officials of Hamilton County.
Tennessee has the country's strongest abortion ban, and the anti-abortion groups that helped write and pass the law that made it that way want to keep it that way.
The Hamilton County Commission circus continued Friday.
What do you do with 700 people suddenly out on the streets a week before Thanksgiving after the hotel they've been living in -- some for more than a year -- is suddenly closed by court order because of crime and squalor?
Voter turnout in Tennessee was down by about half a million from the 2018 midterms, with the Tennessee Secretary of State's office reporting (still unofficially) about 1.76 million votes cast on Nov. 8.
Despite the barrage of news stories and pundit commentary you have seen in recent weeks hyping higher grocery and gas prices to scare an Election Day red wave that didn't land, the fact is those higher consumer prices themselves aren't all that higher given overall wage increases.
Blame it on Ariel, a character from "The Little Mermaid."
