I'm not sure when our 15-year-old son started looking at the real estate website Zillow, but it's giving me the willies.

The bipartisan congressional hearings have brought the events on and leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection to prime time.

From the outset, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol has been marred by political motives and malfeasance, making it unlikely that the vast majority of Americans will have confidence in the committee's ultimate findings.

I was around 16 years old when my grandmother gave me one of my most prized possessions, the red, ornate, hardback version of "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy, complete with foldout maps of Middle Earth. I set into it immediately and, within a few days, had it read from cover to cover.

Independence Day. The Fourth of July.

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently awarded grants to Lee University's Helen DeVos College of Education and the Center for English Language and Literacy.

While the local government buzz around these parts focused on a ballpark and a bunch of money this week, we should not ignore some good news that came from the county commission.

Instead of trying to win over voters by putting forward the best thinking in the marketplace of ideas, Democrats use government to make people do what they want them to do.

Wow, it hasn't been this kind of a head-turning week for the Supremes since Diana Ross was prominently involved.

Building for the future often means either borrowing money or raising revenue.

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

Scientists have long known that the experiences you have during infancy and childhood play an important role in shaping how your brain matures and how you behave as an adult. But figuring out why this happens has been difficult.

Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1972, operatives from President Nixon's re-election campaign broke into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. Were it not for a night guard who noticed that a door was taped open not once but twice, the most notorious political scandal in American history may not have been. But he did notice.

Family relationships can be complicated, and the tumultuous relationship between Chief Dragging Canoe and Nancy Ward, or Nanyehi, bear witness.

Spectrum representatives joined state and local leaders to make a $1,500 donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Ocoee Region and announce the winner of an essay contest.

In a recent essay called "How to Future," Kevin Kelly, one of the founding editors of Wired, writes that "most futurists are really predicting the present.

There will be more than a few places in today's Chattanooga Times Free Press to read about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to ban abortions.

We're about to celebrate the official beginning of our nation.

Readers ask me if I think Biden can do anything more stupid than he just did. I really wish they would stop asking me, as it seems Biden is taking that as a challenge.

I've noticed an interesting trend on Facebook: baby boomers drunk on nostalgia.

Many Union veterans came after the Civil War to seek their fortune in Chattanooga.

In the past nine years, Pay It Forward, sponsored by the McMahan Law Firm, has highlighted the good deeds of nearly 500 Tennessee Valley residents and awarded these individuals with nearly a quarter of a million dollars, one story at a time, $500 at a time.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.