Two views on COVID-19 vaccine requirements.

The darkness had settled around Terminal Station when, at 9:30 on a July night in 1928, the "Chattanooga Times Special" came to a stop on track #8.

Chattanooga State's Lucky 7 Celebration, a monthly event celebrating the upcoming premiere of its seven-week classes on Aug. 16, took a "lucky" turn on July 7 for students, faculty, staff and Chattanooga State's tutoring program.

Imagine the furor among the GOP if, during and just after the Barack Obama administration, more than dozen of his campaign officials were arrested, referred for federal investigation, indicted, forced to resign or otherwise became enveloped in scandal. Not just controversy, but really ugly scandal.

In June of 2017, then-newly chosen Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson sat in the front row of the 150-plus-strong audience seated before the Hamilton County Commission as it passed without fanfare a $691.5 million county budget with no tax increase — an increase that was sorely needed for public school needs.

Elvis - er, a Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest - has left the building. Tennessee's Capitol building.

Hamilton County will hold a state House special election primary on Tuesday. The outcome in the District 29 race is virtually certain, so most voters likely will stay home.

When the Hamilton County Board of Education hired Dr. Bryan Johnson as superintendent in 2017, and once the public realized what an intelligent, energetic and collegial man had been put under contract to lead its school district, it was easy to be swept away in the thought that he would remain in place for many years.

On Friday, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the renamed and renovated Patten Square in downtown Chattanooga - formerly Patten Parkway - officially will be reopened.

While still well below their winter peaks, the latest spikes in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are raising concerns among health officials and among many Americans - just not among enough, given how many people still remain unvaccinated.

Memo to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema: Your friend would not be pleased with you.

If you're the richest person on Earth, your next step might be to launch yourself into space.

People on the far left have become so predictable that their statements are no longer "breaking news."

When the COVID-19 pandemic eventually recedes, its global costs will become clearer.

In the 1950s there was a quiz show called "To Tell the Truth."