Less than 20 years ago, Republicans in Tennessee had to fight for scraps at the state legislative table. Now that they're the majority party, groups within the party seem to want to tear them apart.

A former aide to state Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, who is running for Congress said in a recent debate among Republican candidates for Tennessee's 5th District the idea he is most passionate about is repealing the 17th Amendment.

It's not your imagination. Drivers are getting worse.

If the public and private officials involved in the development of the former manufacturing area between Interstate 24 and South Broad Street that was announced Thursday had waited for the alignment of the sun, the moon and the stars to move ahead, they'd be waiting a long time.

Those looking with blinders at last week's United States Supreme Court ruling in a Maine case involving funding for schools got plenty of help from the rush-to-judgment media.

Remember December 2020 when millions of Americans couldn't wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccination?

"Having any elected position," Chattanooga City Councilman and Hamilton County Commissioner Ken Smith said, "is not for the faint-hearted."

Abortion, abhorrent as it is, is back where it ought to be - in the hands of the states.

Chattanooga for nearly three decades has been declared the largest city in the country with no abortion clinic.

State Rep. Patsy Hazlewood, R-Signal Mountain, was one of 16 members of the Tennessee House of Representatives to score a 100% voting record on issues flagged by the Tennessee Federation of Independent Business during the 112th General Assembly in 2021-2022.

Let us assert at the outset that we don't know, and there's no way to know, if anything would have changed.

Fifty years ago Friday, burglars broke in the Watergate complex headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C.

"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."

With many Hamilton County races decided, or all but decided, in the May primary, some voters may feel like they can take a pass on the August general election.

The voter fraud conspiracy that has permeated Donald Trump's thoughts and actions since the November 2020 election has tendrils that have twisted and twined down to Hamilton County.

You're going to do what? Yeah, right.

Just before we hit "delete" on what appeared to be another junk email recently, these words caught our eyes: "Did you know that Tennessee is 49th in the nation for voter turnout?"

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is but one vote out of 435 in the United States House of Representatives, but he has been in office 12 years now.

The shots were fired only a day after a glowing Wall Street Journal report on the city hit the internet.

The words in Friday's newspaper were astonishing, even if not everyone realized it.

The newspaper's Life section is seeking life advice from readers for recent high school or college graduates.

Former two-term Chattanooga Mayor Charles A. "Pat" Rose, who died Monday, presided over what one report said at the time of his two terms in office (1975-1983) was "the greatest downtown growth in history."

The Tennessee Republican Party's State Executive Committee, given the rules in place, returned the only decision it could in a vote Friday on a challenge to the results in Hamilton County's recent mayoral primary by second-place finisher Sabrena Smedley.