The Erlanger Board of Trustees' decision in October to remove the hospital's chief of staff is drawing concern from physicians even outside the health system. And well it should.

We learned last week that Tennessee Republicans in the statehouse were throwing cold water on a proposed congressional redistricting map drawn by state Democrats.

"This Thanksgiving we're all in a very different circumstance: Things are a hell of a lot better," President Joe Biden mused to reporters with The Washington Post in early November.

We all know the story of this 400th anniversary of the "First Thanksgiving." Or at least we know the one we were taught.

Our governor and lawmakers always wave away questions about tax money by bragging that Tennessee has no income tax, a revenue surplus and a low cost of living.

How many of us already are browsing automaker websites to decide what electric car we'd like to buy with the possible $12,000 tax incentive in the Build Back Better plan passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday morning?

Hate trafficking is alive and well in Tennessee — and particularly in the Tennessee General Assembly.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has no bottom.

With all of the headlines about Tennessee lawmakers squashing COVID-19 prevention, it would be easy to be lulled into thinking our leaders are making these decisions because the threat of COVID-19 is a thing of the past.

Being America's highest-paid federal employee is nice work if you can get it.

Why does everything have to be about party politics?

The public — that means you, readers — has less than a month now to comment on a U.S. Forest Service project twice the size of Atlanta dubbed the Foothills Landscape Project.

Gov. Bill Lee, with his assurance Wednesday to reporters that he will sign the shameful COVID-19 state omnibus bill which purports to mandate against federal and local mandates, has come full circle.

Just when we thought perhaps the squabbling about Hamilton County redistricting was over, several members of the school board on Wednesday acted as though they'd slept through the whole thing and woke up to see they are being bulldozed by Hamilton Commission Chairwoman Sabrena Smedley and her GOP commission colleagues just like everyone else.

As President Joe Biden says: "Finally! Infrastructure Week!"

Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger was about as accusatory as he ever gets publicly last week he spoke about the fact that not one member of the county's legislative delegation, or anyone from the governor's office or the state health department, sought his input they shaped and passed a bill to gut the county's ability to make its own decisions on how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In March of 2019, "Chattanooga's Next Great Neighborhood" was unveiled as the city's new West End, but now called The Bend.

Gov. Bill Lee should veto the big anti-mask and anti-vaccine "omnibus" bill - or at least parts of it - that Tennessee lawmakers blustered to pass last week.

Like politics, all climate is local, so let's get local. And let's get real. What will 2050 and beyond really look like on ordinary days here in the Chattanooga region?

Despite a number of people from across the county asking Hamilton County Commissioners to wait two more weeks for the public to digest redistricting maps that were changed in five districts just 30 minutes before, all six white Republican commissioners on the dais moved full steam ahead to approve the changes and send them to the state.

It is embarrassing to be a Tennessean today - after our GOP-controlled General Assembly members made fools of themselves in a special session to mandate that no one can mandate but them.

Seeing the groundbreaking Tuesday for an $8 million Chattanooga Construction Career Center for training building trades workers on the campus of the former Mary Garber elementary school in East Chattanooga was wonderful.

The historic W Road running from the Mountain Creek community to the top of Signal Mountain is a treasure — until you get sandwiched in a line of traffic after a tractor-trailer following a wayward GPS signal has become wedged in one of its rock-and-cliff-lined hairpin turns.