There are so many hats flying into the ring of Hamilton County politics your head will spin.

Is it really a mean and scary world? Or, do our media-saturated brains make us nervous Nellies?

Just when I was getting used to actual reality, along comes virtual reality.

In the spring of 1865, as the light of the southern Confederacy was in its final flicker, Brig. Gen. Zealous B. Tower, inspector general of fortifications for the Union Military Division of the Mississippi, visited Chattanooga.

Perhaps we're wrong.

Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your social media feed?

Keeping up with giving traditions during a pandemic is a little tricky.

It's far from breaking news to tell you that COVID-19's insidious reach has affected every aspect of our lives. Some more visible and stark than others, of course.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (or "Sandy" as she was known by her tony Westchester, N.Y., classmates back when being a victim was not aspirational) recently got the 'rona.

Writing about the Jan. 6 anniversary has its challenges - as soon as you name it, you're locked into a specific political category. If you try to cross into other political categories, you're insulted and silenced.

As Nashville-based Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Andy Sher shared with readers Monday, Tennessee's state legislators get back to work Tuesday.

For a solid decade, Luka Hyde, 18, was never at home for the Fourth of July.

First, let me stipulate: I'm a big fan of Food City.

Twelve months ago, a group of 200 of us began a sort of liturgical and social experiment: We spent a year reading Martin Luther King Jr.

Chattanooga restaurants STIR and State of Confusion recently donated more than $11,000 to charity partner Chattanooga Community Kitchen.

In 1913, the family of the late T.G. Montague, a pillar of Chattanooga's business and civic community, donated more than 40 acres of land on the south side of the city for a public park to be named in his honor.

For the first time, the United States has been classified as a "backsliding democracy" in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an intergovernmental research group.

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In this time of uncertainty - when inconsistency is the only consistency - I always enjoy the year-end lists that come with the flipping of the calendar.

A recent poll analyzed by the Wall Street Journal found that Americans are stuck in a state of discontent.

I know a lot of us viewed the calendar flip with a cautious optimism and mused, "Well, it can't be much crazier, right?"

At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the intensity of the presidential election and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2021 proved up to the task, starting with the Jan. 6 insurrection and continuing with copious amounts of falsehoods and distortions about COVID-19 vaccines.

The Montague land bequest for a park in South Chattanooga hung in limbo for decades, partially realized but not developed.