Edge
The latest Edge coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Business section.
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What a long, mellow trip it’s been: Downtown mainstay Mellow Mushroom marks two decades
Jason Jones started selling insurance online in April 2020, not because he wanted to, but because he was a restaurateur in the early days of the pandemic.

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Jim Place: What’s up with inflation, and how it will come back down
Jim Place is managing partner of Evergreen Advisors, and host of daily financial radio show, "Let's Talk Money," on WGOW 102.3 FM.

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Chattanooga Small Business Networking at Indigo Hotel
Members of Chattanooga Small Business Networking gathered at the Indigo Hotel to catch up and make connections. The group has grown to more than 30,000 members on its Facebook page and launched a networking platform at csbnconnect.com.

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Taxing time: What’s different this year in filing your taxes
The relief package Congress adopted to ease the economic strain of the COVID-19 pandemic last year advanced child tax credits and offered a host of stimulus payments and loans for individuals. The measures helped boost the economic recovery last year, but they may complicate the filing of 2021 tax returns this year.

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The meaning of life in two words
Many years ago, I attended a lecture entitled, "The Meaning of Life in Two Words." With a promise like that, how can you not go? I honestly expected it to be a joke.

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Who’s on the move in Chattanooga’s business community and where are they going?
Patrick Jones joins Franklin Wealth Management as a wealth plan analyst.

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Recommended Reading: Kim Shumpert has relied on two key books throughout her career
Kim Shumpert, chief executive officer of the Chattanooga Women's Leadership Institute since 2018, has worked in the public, private and nonprofit sectors over the past two decades in a variety of jobs from marketing a construction company to raising money for Bethel Bible Village.

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Chattanooga-area property value spike was a Hamilton County record
Last year set records in lots of ways, and one of those was a stunning increase in local property values, according to the Hamilton County Assessor of Property.

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The Brand: Chattanooga Football Club
The idea for the Chattanooga Football Club was born in 2008, when Thomas Clark, a former soccer player with the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Chattanooga transplant, tried out with an amateur soccer team in Birmingham, Alabama.

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What are Chattanooga’s biggest banks?
Despite the economic downturn and drop in interest rates caused by the coronavirus pandemic, total deposits in the 27 commercial banks operating in the six-county Chattanooga metropolitan area grew by nearly $1.7 billion in the 12 months ended June 30.
