You didn't need to be an expert on health care, you didn't need to have a degree in economics and you didn't need to be knowledgeable about government bureaucracy to know what was being said from 2007 to 2009 could not possibly be feasible.

The campaign to destroy Chick-fil-A has returned.

Democrat Joe Biden's presidential campaign machinery has been working overtime lately. While its public face was promoting its candidate, its private one has been in damage control.

When did it become mandatory that friendships be ideologically pure?

A day after President Donald Trump announced a rally at Target Center in Minneapolis late last month, the city's police department announced that off-duty police personnel could no longer wear their uniforms to political events.

Somewhere, the late Hamilton County Commissioner Curtis Adams is smiling. Someone has proposed a wheel tax again.

Democrats may be unable to stop themselves from impeachment. It could cost them dearly.

Three deaths.

Gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee heard a number of comments as he toured Tennessee en route to his election last November and since his inauguration. One of them was that people were praying for him. Lots of them.

Actress Rosie O'Donnell, who's had a longstanding feud with businessman, candidate, then President Donald Trump, thought she'd expose what she expected was a nationwide opinion among her Twitter followers last week.

The fear must have been palpable.

The incident is emblematic of the current political animus writ large on the country.

Just over Monteagle Mountain from Chattanooga in Manchester, Tennessee, a teenager is dead after being outed as bisexual on social media.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, a 2020 presidential candidate, recently rolled out her ethics plan, but it hit a snag last week when she was confronted with a certain ticklish situation.

Almost all of the top Democratic candidates for president in 2020 advocate abolishing the Electoral College, the Founding Fathers' device for not allowing the most populous states to dominate voting for the country's chief executive.

Since the Tennessee American Water Company water leak and outage that affected service to some 35,000 Chattanooga connections earlier this month, the company has been forthcoming with a scad of information.

Not that you'd know it, but it actually rained in parts of the Chattanooga area earlier this week. Yes, it probably wasn't enough to do the parched yards and leaf-dropping trees much good, but it was really rain.

Today, the 45-acre site of the former Harriet Tubman federal housing complex in East Chattanooga generates no money for its city of Chattanooga owners.

Remember "collusion," the word Democrats attempted to tie to President Donald Trump for more than two years, eventually without success?

Only months after taking office in 2013, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke was confronted with a decision. Should he let the former Harriet Tubman federal housing site be purchased, perhaps patched and then reopened to what promised to be a crowded, less-than-ideal, subsidized homes complex?

It was a perfect Elizabeth Warren moment.

When crepe myrtles bloom earlier in the year than they did when most baby boomers were young, when record-setting mid-September days feel more like mid-July or mid-August, and when many winters go by locally without snow, something with our climate is going on.

Let's be frank.