The stereotypical historical view of any plan coming out of a chamber of commerce is a business-heavy, top-down, our-way-is-best blueprint.

The campaign of former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, who is floundering in the polls and laying off campaign staff in New Hampshire and South Carolina while narrowing his focus to Iowa and Nevada, decided perhaps the race card is what it needed.

One week from today a group of Hamilton County Schools teachers will hold a town hall gathering on teacher pay and public education funding.

An August raid of 680 illegal immigrants at seven poultry processing plants across Mississippi brought the usual caterwauling in support of a group of people who, at a minimum broke the law in being in the United States.

DEMS, DON'T TRUST THE POLLS: Since political polls can be made to say whatever you want them to, we put little stock in them these days. Perhaps Democrats should too. Only three of the last seven Democratic presidential nominees were ahead in national polls in November or December before the primary contests began.

Nine months after Kansas City became one of the last major cities in the United States to name a street after civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., residents voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to remove the name.

One minute a member of the World Series champion Washington Nationals. The next minute the most hated man in America.

From late August through early October, before President Donald Trump's call with the Ukrainian president became public, the message from leftist pundits was: "The recession is coming, the recession is coming."

Democratic presidential candidate Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke wants America to go way beyond a woman's right to choose.

Forty years ago tomorrow, militant Islamists seized the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, and began the start of what President Donald Trump has categorized generally as "endless wars."

The Chattanooga City Council pulled hard on the reins of proposed steep slope development legislation in its strategic planning meeting Tuesday, and we think that's a wise choice.

We said recently House Democrats wouldn't be able to help themselves, and they proved it Thursday by approving an impeachment process for President Donald Trump.

One look at Chattanooga's 2019 Community Survey might provide the impetus for a winning campaign for a candidate in the city's mayoral race slightly more than 16 months from now.

Tennessee state Rep. Robin Smith, R-Hixson, recently suggested in an opinion piece in the national conservative website The Patriot Post that the political left is at least somewhat to blame for rising rates of youth suicide and mental health problems among younger working Americans.

The 2016 Democratic nominee has put forth yet another reason she might have lost the previous election to President Donald Trump.

One hundred years ago this week, on Oct. 28, 1919, the National Prohibition Act became law.

The venerable Harvard Crimson, the 146-year-old student newspaper of the highly regarded Ivy League school, committed a random act of journalism recently.

When did individual groups of people begin to own words?

Erlanger Health System, regrettably, has climbed back on the financial roller coaster.

Until Hamilton County teachers are paid salaries at or above those of their compatriots in adjoining Tennessee or North Georgia counties, we'll always be on the side of raises where possible.

Another media figure said the spot was the "one of the most perfect ad placements in the history of advertising."

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.