For our third annual Best Places to Work issue, local employers worked through an exhaustive survey process run by the Best Companies Group, which was founded 18 years ago. Since its inception, Best Companies Group has established over 70 Best Places to Work programs throughout the United States and internationally.

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HomeSnacks combines recent data from the Census, FBI, OpenStreetMaps, and dozens of other sources into bite-sized studies to rate what it's like to live in different communities across the country. The 10 best Chattanooga suburbs, according to the site are:

Mac Hibbett has amassed quite a record as a Crye-Leike real-estate broker; he's been the company's top regional producer three times in 12 years and was voted Chattanooga Times Free Press Best of the Best Commercial Realtor in 2019 and 2020.

Reality TV has a bad reputation as a mindless waste of time; a guilty pleasure for those looking to escape. It's almost embarrassing to admit you watch it; you feel like you should preface it with "only after I read The Wall Street Journal" or something.

A property on one of Chattanooga's most rapidly changing corridors in downtown's Southside is on the market. The commercial building at 806 E. Main St. holds 10,212 square feet of space near Central Avenue.

Carlos Garcia likes to say yes, so when an acquaintance asked him six years ago whether he and his cleaning company crew could build out a fulfillment center in Chattanooga, he had his answer ready.

Jessica (Bastianelli) Pilcher is a classic striver.

Local logistics companies are hiring at fever pitch.

When Ann Eslinger first joined EPB eight years ago she acknowledges she hardly knew what a kilowatt-hour was, let alone how businesses could be encouraged to reduce their energy usage.

Folks new to the Chattanooga area met and mingled at the Moxy Hotel downtown in March. The ChattaNewbies program that welcomes newcomers to the Chattanooga area is sponsored by the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce.

Paul Weidlich, attorney, joins Miller & Martin's Chattanooga office as a member of its Intellectual Property Practice Group. With a focus on complex issues relating to intellectual property, Weidlich's practice includes patents and trademarks portfolio development, preparation, and prosecution; trade secrets, copyrights, licensing agreements; media, advertising and promotional law and intellectual property litigation.