Rants

  • The Rant

    If you are going to protest, show your face. Don't be chicken. And don't blame COVID. You weaken your stance by hiding in public.

    by Community Submissions December 9, 2023

  • The Rant

    2023 is beating 2022 in pedestrian deaths, 17 to 6. What an honor for our city.Frazier Avenue is hazardous to your health.

    by Community submissions December 2, 2023

  • The Rant

    If bike lane paint could fill potholes, Chattanooga would have the smoothest roads in North America. Thump.

    by Community submissions November 25, 2023

  • The Rant

    Thank you, Hamilton County. McDonald Farm was a smash success for the county fair.

    by Community Submissions November 18, 2023

  • The Rant

    Right on, Mark Kennedy! I will keep buying the Sunday paper as long as your column is in it.

    by Community submissions November 11, 2023

  • The Rant

    R.I.P. Riverbend Festival, you served us well.

    by Community submissions November 4, 2023

  • The Rant

    I hope the broken city sidewalk in front of the CHATT Foundation is not an indication of how the city will take care of the proposed low-barrier shelter.

    by Community submissions November 3, 2023

  • The Rant

    Riverbend served Chattanooga as a meaningful part of city's history. Time to send it to the taxidermist, hang 'er on the wall and remember it occasionally.

    by Community Submissions October 28, 2023

  • The Rant

    RiverCity website: "downtown's best place to do business and have fun." Quit overselling; acknowledge "boiling point" violent crime as other leaders have respo…

    by Community Submissions October 21, 2023

  • The Rant

    Just moved back to town after six years. Stunned about the demise of North Shore and downtown. COVID really hurt things. No people anywhere.

    by Community submissions October 14, 2023

  • The Rant

    Sixty-six arrests. Who has 66 arrests and walks around free with a gun? Don't care what you look like. What's wrong with our legal system?

    by Community submissions October 7, 2023

  • The Rant

    Hey, Chattanooga Airport people, as you contemplate more direct flights, I'd rather fly to Colorado than grubby ole Texas.

    by Community submissions October 6, 2023

  • The Rant

    "Gentrification" is the wrong way to describe CHA's approach to Westside residents trapped in surrounding redevelopment. Conscious-less, paramilitary and heavy…

    by Community submissions September 30, 2023

  • The Rant

    Embarrassing that we had to ask for the public's help to find a downed $100 million military jet. No beacon?

    by Community submissions September 23, 2023

  • The Rant

    Positive, aspirational rant: Coach Rusty Wright, your motivation speech to UTC football players was reported as transformational. Please, please take this spee…

    by Community submissions September 16, 2023