We suspect most Tennessee Valley residents already suspect the flimflam aspects of the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act," which recently passed the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate.

An examination of election returns in the 2022 contest for Hamilton County mayor and the initial contest for county mayor under the current system in 1978 indicates how some county voting patterns have switched and some have remained the same based on the direction of national political parties.

A 7.6-acre site along Lookout Creek at the foot of Lookout Mountain where Union troops once confronted Confederate pickets will now be protected land.

Weston Wamp's third try at elected office proved to be the charm Thursday night.

Attractive, well-maintained, well-located and open public parks make a city more attractive. No doubt about that.

Were the hot dogs nonpartisan? That is the big question.

Two things seem clear in spite of last week's kerfuffle about emails between entrepreneur Weston Wamp and owners of the Chattanooga Lookouts.

Just as the Hamilton County Commission had done with some $69 million a few days earlier, the Chattanooga City Council approved how to spend $30 million in federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds last week.

We'd love for Chattanooga residents to be jumping up and down with excitement over Mayor Tim Kelly's new "roadmap" for "Ending Gun Violence in Chattanooga."

"Apathy is so thick in Tennessee," the Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful said, "it can be cut with a knife."

We thought the Hamilton County August general election might come and go without negative campaigning raising its ugly head, but, sadly, we were wrong.

With a group of unanimous votes last week, the Hamilton County Commission approved spending $30 million in federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) money, including close to $10 million on projects requested by individual members.

Lost in the August county general elections across the state and in Tennessee's first ever partisan school board elections is the state primary election.

If there is any doubt how much politics has crept into school boards across the country, the Hamilton County Board of Education's actions on Thursday night served as an example.

Very few partisan races dot the August Hamilton County general election ballot, especially when it comes to judges and constitutional officers.

When the Chattanooga City Council chose Marvene Noel to serve as an interim council member in March, she was judged the strongest of seven applicants because of her deep ties to the District 8 community.

The 11-member Hamilton County Commission that voters will elect next month will have at least seven faces not a part of the current body and could have — including the two new seats added with redistricting following the 2020 census — as many as nine.

Whichever candidate is elected Hamilton County mayor in next month's general election will become the youngest and most inexperienced mayor since the county switched to a mayor/commission form of government in 1978.

The bidding came down to two heavily Democratic cities for hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention.

The May primary election decided eight of the now- 11 seats on the Hamilton County Commission, but three remain up for grabs in the Aug. 4 general election.

Early voters who are not close followers of the news may be confused when they scan their ballot for the Aug. 4 election.

Mark down Hamilton County District Attorney Democratic candidate John Allen Brooks as the latest to intimate that he won't carry out a law he disagrees with.

The results don't have the same national implications as they did for Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, but add Dr. Larry Arnn's name to the list of prominent people whose careless words were costly.