Politics
Everything you need to know about politics in the Chattanooga area, from local government meetings to elections.
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Chattanooga closing in on $345.2 million budget
Chattanooga got one vote closer to setting its spending in the next fiscal year as concerns about raises and a potential tax hike shaped some budget discussions.
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High property values lead to historic low tax rate for Hamilton County
Because of historic high property values, Hamilton County's property tax rate will decrease to a historic low.
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Trump’s latest pardons benefit an array of political allies and public figures
A governor who resigned amid a corruption scandal and served two stints in federal prison. A New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction and who made headlines for threatening to throw a reporter off a Capitol balcony over a question he didn't like.
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Trump administration increases pressure on ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ with public listing
The Department of Homeland Security is putting more than 500 "sanctuary jurisdictions" across the country on notice that the Trump administration views them as obstructing immigration enforcement as it attempts to increase pressure on communities it believes are standing in the way of the president's mass deportations agenda.
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Longtime National Park Service ecologist leaving Chattanooga post amid DOGE cuts
Jeff Duncan doesn't see his job as a job. He sees it as a calling.
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What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a court has knocked them down?
President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products.
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Trump honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, while attacking Biden and judges
President Donald Trump paid tribute to fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, in an address that honored the "great, great warriors" yet also briefly veered into politics as he boasted of a nation he is "fixing after a long and hard four years."
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from barring foreign student enrollment at Harvard
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off Harvard's enrollment of foreign students, an action the Ivy League school decried as unconstitutional retaliation for defying the White House’s political demands.
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DOGE targets Census Bureau, worrying data users about health of US data infrastructure
The group launched by Elon Musk to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting some U.S. Census Bureau surveys it claims are "wasteful," worrying users of federal data who are already concerned about the health of the nation's statistical infrastructure.
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Wamp says a projected stadium shortfall requires Hamilton County keep more lodging tax dollars
Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp told county commissioners during his budget presentation this week that he wants their support for a multiyear plan to step down funding for the area's leading tourism promoter.
