Hamilton County's two lowest performing high schools took opposite tracks when it came to 2021 graduation rates, numbers released by the Tennessee Department of Education show.

On the same day next November when Tennesseans decide whether to re-elect Gov. Bill Lee, they'll also decide whether the constitutional amendment effort he agreed to lead last week will pass.

"Did we just grow government? Did we just add people and money to the budget, mid-year?"

A supervised tent city for homeless individuals, with access to bathrooms and other services, sounds humane and compassionate.

Having the signatures of 25 friends will no longer get you on the ballot in Tennessee if you're a Republican.

"To a child who doesn't read," the nearly 50-year-old public service television advertisement intoned, "the world is a closed book.

Targeted for closure in a master plan by Gov. Ned McWherter's administration in the early 1990s, said to be on the chopping block by the Sundquist administration in 1999, downsized by forced budget cuts during the Bredesen administration in 2009 and marked as potentially being shut down in 10 years by Gov. Bill Haslam 10 years ago this week, the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute could get a shot in the arm with plans for a $276.52 million renovation by the Lee administration.

Tennessee Democrats got ahead of the state Republican legislative majority Monday by offering their own congressional redistricting map.

The Hamilton County Republican Party declared over the weekend it was all in for partisan school board races.

Former President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Chattanooga, for re-election last week.

While we are sympathetic to — and support — the Hamilton County Board of Education's desire to discuss the number of school board districts following the decennial census, we're concerned about the end game if the school board does not have the same number of districts as the Hamilton County Commission.

Hamilton County Sessions Court Judge Gerald Webb said some of his questionable social media posts - dubbed "legal tips of the day" - were "designed to get a laugh and to make people think about life choices."

Once President Joe Biden signs his name to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed late last week by Congress, important questions about how much hard infrastructure is in the bill and what part of the measure is actually paid for all too quickly will fade away.

A week after Hamilton County's new redistricting map was drawn, some quarters are still reacting to what people on both sides said was the most transparent process in recent history.

Quick. Call the out-of-town relatives. It's not too late to invite Granny, Uncle Walter or your best friend for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

The annual cost of operating the city of Chattanooga's recycling program - the operation of its curbside pickup service and its collection centers - is roughly $1.782 million.

The next act in the drama about the controversial COVID-19 legislation passed by the Tennessee legislature during its special session last week is whether Gov. Bill Lee will sign it.

The voices of "Delay, Delay, Delay" that populated the Hamilton County Commission and the public at Tuesday's meeting may not yet know what they tried to stop.

The muddle Tennessee legislators created with the omnibus bill they passed in their special session late last week may be worse than the issues they were trying to address.

We're not looking to point any fingers today but to lament some roads not taken, or not yet taken, anyway.

A Hamilton County redistricting workshop that began with a bang in the earlier county commission meeting Wednesday ended with a whimper and the new political map being substantially done.

Is this really necessary?

The fix may have been in for Ford's planned $5.6 billion manufacturing plant in West Tennessee, but some Republican legislators are planning to make sure it can't happen again.