We watched "42" for the first time the other night.

Fifty years ago, there was no pretense.

We couldn't let this week's end of the vehicle emissions testing program in Hamilton County go by without another thank-you to state Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, and the late Rep. Mike Carter, R-Ooltewah, who steered the bill mandating the end of the program through the legislature in 2018 and then patiently waited as the process to unwind it went through labyrinthine federal levels.

According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence, 99% of domestic violence cases involve financial abuse.

How much, if any, should Hamilton County mayoral candidate Weston Wamp be responsible for what his father says, writes or does?

The discussion an associate professor of public administration at Tennessee State University had Sunday as part of a week of virtual events sponsored by the Unity Group to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week lacked context, we believe.

If a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Reimagining Committee has its way, all students in the fall of 2023 will be required to take six hours of diversity, equity and inclusion courses as part of their general education requirements.

Incredibly, nearly two months after commissioners called the Hamilton County Commission's redistricting process the most open and transparent in history, two commissioners are still grousing about the process.

To hear some Democrats talk, every Republican - from then-President Donald Trump to the most minor elected official - is responsible for what occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The subject was Orchard Knob Middle School, the reference is the state's list of low-performing priority schools and the occasion was Monday night's special called meeting of the school board.

We've made it quite clear that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents the folks just across the state line from Tennessee in Northwest Georgia, is not our favorite conservative Republican.

In the midst of the charges and counter-charges about a stolen 2020 presidential election, we don't recall hearing much about ballot irregularities or miscounting or thievery in Tennessee.

A look back at some noteworthy Free Press editorial cartoons in 2021.

Local newspapers from 50 years ago, the first week of 1972, offer tastes of what we are still dealing with in 2022, proposals that never came to fruition and portents of things that did.

Do you play the percentages?

What's your favorite Christmas song?

Republicans occupy every countywide office in Hamilton County and have a 6-3 advantage on the Hamilton County Commission.

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No one disputes that the eastern portion of Hamilton County is currently the county's biggest growth area. But residents of the area may have spoken through Hamilton County commissioners earlier this week in wanting a say about that growth.

The Hamilton County Board of Education likely will have a called meeting in the next few days to reverse a vote it took last week to oppose a state pilot program at Orchard Knob Middle School, board chairman Tucker McClendon confirmed Thursday.

Remember all that talk about unity in President Joe Biden's inaugural address 11 months ago?

Practically everything about the current presidential administration's policy concerning illegal immigrants and the country's Southern border we find reprehensible.

When Dr. Bryan Johnson was hired as superintendent of Hamilton County Schools in 2017, he inherited a district with stubborn academic growth over the past decade, a scandal resulting from a horrific assault on players on a high school basketball team, a handful of lawsuits and had a school board torn between an ineffective interim superintendent and an outsider.