The placement of news articles on Page A16 in the July 6, 1969, edition of the Chattanooga Times was random, but it held prescience of coming events.

The news that Tennessee state Sen. Bo Watson signed off on controversial legislation on which his lawyer wife, Nicole, had lobbied the legislature doesn't make us think the senator is corrupt.

Tennessee voters will get the opportunity in November to remove a clause from the state constitution forbidding members of the clergy from serving in the state legislature - 44 years after the United States Supreme Court deemed the wording unconstitutional.

Our friends across the state line from Tennessee in Georgia have quite the Republican primary brewing. And we're not talking about the race for governor.

It's not as if Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee hadn't made his point clear on the issue.

Hamilton County Republican voters in Tuesday's primary election opted for older and less strident voices in their Hamilton County Board of Education candidates.

It passed by with little notice earlier this week, but Tennesseans without dependents who are receiving temporary government assistance, and can work, now must work (or participate in job training or do volunteer work).

Any speculation that a last-minute push for Black voters was made to help Weston Wamp win the Republican primary for Hamilton County mayor would be interesting if it could be proven.

The third time may be the charm for Weston Wamp.

The most prominent national news story of the day early Tuesday - that a leaked draft of a United States Supreme Court opinion striking down the Roe v. Wade abortion law may have been written - was based on an unconfirmed report by one news blog but was treated as gospel by traditional media because it is an important issue to their partners on the left.

When the Tennessee legislature passed the Basic Education Program (then the Basic Education Plan) for K-12 public education in 1992, not everybody thought it was a panacea.

Sabrena Smedley went "there," as the saying goes, and to say the least the good ole boys weren't happy about it.

Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond's defiant news conference Thursday proved he may only have four more months in office, but he doesn't plan to to go out as a scapegoat.

The least conservative Republican in Tennessee's U.S. House delegation in Washington, D.C., according to the recently released 2021 ratings by the American Conservative Union Foundation Center for Legislative Accountability, was U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah.

If the operation of the Silverdale Detention Center has broken down so thoroughly that prisoners there are constantly at risk, and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) can no longer be trusted to investigate controversial law enforcement incidents, then a probe by the United States Department of Justice is warranted.

State budgets usually put a little something in a lot of buckets, but some folks in Hamilton County may think they got shortchanged in the state's record fiscal 2023 financial blueprint. Others may not.

When people feared partisan school board elections in Tennessee when they were being considered in the Tennessee General Assembly last fall, what is happening in Hamilton County's new District 11 is likely what they had in mind.

We've never owned a small business, but we've been around those who do for many years.

We had a sense this was about to happen.

It's all about flexibility, the Erlanger Health System Board of Trustees says.

It's the one rumor in the 2022 Hamilton County mayoral campaign that just won't go away.

It is one thing for judicial candidates to know the law. It is another for them to know how to interpret and apply it properly and do so with compassion.

In an era where parents are demanding to have more of a say in what their child is reading and being taught in public schools, the makeup of a school board is critical.