You must know something is wrong in Tennessee when Republicans can't find Republicans who are Republican enough for them. Even Republican teachers.

Go ahead, get mad. Get loud. Then vote.

Just as with abortion, our dangerous new majority Supreme Court didn't have to go beyond the case in front of it to decide a clean air case and endanger the earth. But it did.

Finally the community is getting more of a look at the proposed new Lookouts Stadium plan that calls for using a lot of our tax dollars - nearly $60 million based on a rundown in Thursday's paper - in the name of catalyzing "development" in the South Broad area of Chattanooga.

Who would have thought a few decades ago that hard-fought-for equality for women would end with back-to-back Supreme Court rulings by a core of Ivy League, Christian conservative justices that would suggest gun toters have more freedoms than the half of Americans who can, should they choose, birth babies?

The Erlanger board of trustees is clearly singleminded in its sprint to finish turning our public hospital — one of the nation's largest public hospital systems — into a private, nonprofit business model.

The shooting in Chattanooga is still going. Police and news reports focused attention on the big ones - the nightclub and tourism spot shootings.

Bring out the long, red, hooded dresses made famous by "The Handmaid's Tale," the now-not-so-futuristic-and-dystopian book, movie and television series from author Margaret Atwood.

"We have to make reading fun. And what's better than reading about frog butts?" Breckan Duckworth, literacy officer for Hamilton County Schools, said in a recent interview with the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Bill Kristol, whose political credits are long and stellar — he is a moderate conservative in an extreme-views world — has what he terms a reasonably optimistic outlook on American politics.

We know you heard about it.

If any group of people in the country needs to be watching the hearings of the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, it is the people of Tennessee.

If you ever want to document the separation of the GOP from reality — much like that described by former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr as he testified recently in depositions to the Jan. 6 committee about former president Donald Trump's denial of election results — just look at U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's twitter pages — @RepChuck or @chuck4congress.

Chattanooga and Hamilton County have always been ambitious about parks and greenspace.

It seems the stadium plan aimed at siphoning away our tax dollars won't go away.

A doctor's testimony to Congress on Wednesday about what he saw in a Uvalde, Texas, emergency room was devastating: The first two bodies he saw were "pulverized" and "decapitated."

Here's one of biggest understatements of our week here in Chattanooga. And it's the lead of a very important story in Tuesday's Chattanooga Times Free Press.

"I'm tired of standing in front of you talking about guns and bodies."

Hamilton County's GOP mayoral primary was rightly certified last month by the Hamilton County Election Commission and later - rightly again - by the Tennessee Republican Party Executive Committee, despite the two losing candidates contesting the election because of "crossover" voting by Democrats.

Two good things have come from Chattanooga's second horrific mass shooting in a mere eight months.

Don't let anyone tell you your power bills are rising only because of inflation, increased natural gas prices and high costs of "clean" energy.

We made the national news again.

What's new to say about guns and mass violence in America? Nothing. Just dig some more graves and shut up.