Not too long ago, this page challenged local elected officials to be as creative and determined with ideas to fund our schools — both in academics and in deferred building needs — as they were in finding ways to fund a new minor league baseball stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts.
This would be funny, were it not so sick: North Georgia's U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, thinks conspiracy theorist and serial radio liar Alex Jones is being persecuted.
Please, please, please — let's not hurt any feelings. Especially little white feelings.
What makes home and our homeland so special? What makes it -- well -- home?
It's a red letter day in Chattanooga.
UTC West Chair of Excellence and communications professor Dr. Dave Sachsman could be a bit on the sandpapery side at times. Especially about stories involving the environment. And especially about environmental stories and their political and historical context.
As Hamilton County and the nation pull further and further away from the grimmest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's good to begin seeing progress on other fronts.
Why is it so much easier in the South to bad-mouth something -- even when we know there isn't that much to complain about? Electric cars offer us a perfect example, one the Chattanooga Times Free Press examined thoroughly on Sunday.
What a concept! Hamilton County's courthouse government and our school board and some mover/shaker community members are going to work together -- not just talk for lots more years, we hope -- about our decades old and growing nearly $1 billion in deferred repairs for school facilities.
Something is wrong in a school when a teacher or coach calls a school resource officer over words between a student and a coach.
