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Friday, November 13, 2026Nov 13

Heroes & Zeroes: Spotlighting winners and losers in the news

photo Pamela Brown, rear, and Heather Basham fly down a water slide at Lake Winnepesaukah’s newest attraction, Soakya water park.

HERO: McKamey Animal Center and HomeAgain.

The Free Press editorial page joined with McKamey and HomeAgain, the maker of pet microchips, to offer free microchipping to 25 dogs and cats in the Chattanooga area last week. As a result, these beloved pets are much more likely to return home if they’re ever lost or missing. McKamey implants HomeAgain microchips for only $25 Wednesdays through Saturdays. Visit McKamey’s Facebook page to see some of dogs and cats that received the microchips.

ZERO: EPB television customers.

Despite having the $552 million infrastructure cost of the EPB Fiber Optics business built at the expense of taxpayers and electric customers, EPB’s TV, Internet and telephone business is apparently struggling to remain economically viable. As a result, the government-owned electric company has announced a rate hike of up to $6 per month on its cable TV customers, providing yet more proof that socialism does not work.

HERO: Common Cause Georgia.