If you expect this week's Tennessee General Assembly's special session to review and approve incentives for the state's recently announced Ford plant to get a little sticky, you're not alone.

Tennessee's Republican politicians are demonstrating the same irresponsible and self-defeating behavior that some Volunteer fans showed Saturday night.

Former U.S. attorney for North Georgia, Byung J. "Bjay" Pak is our guy.

Our own North Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, has never seen a camera she didn't like.

Chattanooga officials and some city residents took a big and needed step Tuesday by meeting to talk candidly about gun violence in our city.

Now we know what the "opt out" mask mandate has done for Tennessee.

The passage of Chattanooga's city budget last week sailed in and out the council chambers without a hitch - a pretty remarkable feat given that the $302 million budget gave raises to lots of city employees (especially police), did not defund police (a demand from some in our city) and included a $30 million city property tax increase (something that usually brings screams from the public).

Hello, Ford. Welcome to the new world - the new world of transportation post-combustion power.

"The message we're taking forward is, put the guns down. It shouldn't have to happen to someone you know. Seven women were shot. That should make all of us cry."

Chattanooga had a mass shooting Saturday night. Two women were killed and five other females - the youngest was 14 - were wounded.

The saga of the would-be Bellefonte Nuclear Plant continues — but not with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on board.

State Rep. and Chattanooga Democrat Yusuf Hakeem is rightfully calling out the state's GOP legislative leadership for sidelining his bill to provide more Black history instruction in Tennessee schools by omitting it from the agenda of a summer education study committee.

History is never just history - especially with environmental issues.

Hamilton County's COVID-19 deaths hit 600 this week. Sadly, this is not surprising in the state that has finally found a way to be No. 1 in something - the highest, fastest rate of transmission of this dangerously contagious virus.

It was a foregone conclusion. Tennessee is set to receive at least 415 Afghan refugees in the coming weeks, yet Gov. Bill Lee is calling on the White House to provide detailed information - "full transparency" - on who will be arriving.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline thundered: "Georgia Gov. Kemp stops short of measures to address COVID-19's spread."

You may have missed this bit of important news earlier this month - given all the necessary concern over COVID-19, Afghanistan, a local election and other breaking news.

Fate is fickle. And justice is unsure. And often slow.

Some big Chattanooga businesses ducked their heads last week when called on by Times Free Press reporters to comment on President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for employers with 100 or more workers.

Flushes are not free.

It seems fitting that 20 years after we launched war in Afghanistan because the country was said to harbor al Qaeda, the terrorist group founded by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, the 9/11 mastermind, that we are readying now - in Chattanooga and across the nation - to take in Afghan refugees who assisted the U.S. military during our no-win, ill-conceived, 20-year war.

The Volunteer State's "fetal heartbeat" measure, signed into law in July 2020 by Gov. Bill Lee, might have beaten Texas to the punch on severely restricting abortion were it not still on hold in the hands of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Tennesseans are always looking to be No. 1 at something: winning football, best tourist destination, most patriotic, most religious — pick one.