Redistricting is not for the faint of heart.

An email brings us news that 2022 Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Jason Martin has plans to visit each of the state's 95 counties to win his party's nomination.

One of the most difficult aspects of COVID-19, we have maintained since the name first came into our vocabulary more than 18 months ago, is sorting through the torrent of information about the virus and choosing what to keep and what to reject.

Remember 9/11, yes. Make it a holiday, no.

State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, is quoted by the Tennessee Lookout as saying he is "surprised and disappointed" the Joint Legislative Education Committee has no plans this week to discuss a bill he introduced to provide a study of Black history to public school students.

What has been so wrongheaded with the removal of Confederate statues in cities across the South over the past several years is the useless attempt to whitewash history.

It's a wonder anyone wants to be a public school teacher today, but thank goodness for the dedicated souls who do.

A former Hamilton County commissioner says the decennial redistricting is a prime opportunity for the commission to expand in size so that its members don't have to serve more than 40,000 residents each.

Tuesday was Election Day, and we're not talking about the California recall election in which Golden State residents were to decide whether to keep or reject their "let-them-eat-cake" Democratic governor.

The billboard apparently wasn't up for long, but it was up long enough last week to make more than a few people boiling mad.

Representatives of several organizations came before the Hamilton County Commission last week to plead for transparency and openness in the redistricting process that must follow the recently completed census count.

President Joe Biden said Thursday the federal government should determine who should have COVID-19 vaccines. And he plans to use the unprecedented idea of forcing employees at the country's largest private businesses to take them (or be tested every week) to make sure of it.

Twenty years ago today in Chattanooga, on Sept. 10, 2001, the day before the world changed here and across our country, the public already was mourning.

No one wants to go backward.

Imagine someone anticipating a colonoscopy after symptoms appeared or a mammogram scheduled after finding a lump, and then learning the tests wouldn't be covered by their health insurance.

The answers by Chattanooga City Council and Hamilton County Commission members last week to a Times Free Press question as to whether they had taken the COVID-19 vaccine paint, not surprisingly, a picture of the wider community and country.

Remember the predicted cicada invasion? Four months ago, experts told us the 13-year type (or was it the 17-year type, or both?) would be swarming across the Volunteer State this summer.

The excitement in the voice of Dr. Nakia Towns, interim superintendent of Hamilton County Schools, was unmistakeable. She was clear that she wanted another headline.

The long knives came out even before former University of Georgia football great Herschel Walker declared his candidacy for a Georgia U.S. Senate seat last week.

A private business cannot discriminate against an employee because she is white, according to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Another one cannot discriminate against an employee because he is a male.

It was 11 years ago this month that Marine bomb technician Joey Jones, who grew up in Dalton, Ga., took a breather from hunting for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a small market in Safar, Afghanistan.

We have to admit we rolled our eyes when we saw that race was insinuated by a Hamilton County commissioner earlier this week with the fact the powers that be haven't snapped their fingers and wished a new Tyner Academy in place.

While Tennessee taxpayer funding for K-12 education has grown 30.5% in the last eight years, less and less money is making it to the classroom, a new report showed.