Dear Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn: We have a question for you and your closest, disrespectful GOP colleagues.

Time is running out.

Perhaps you haven't noticed the weather warnings over the past week to be careful with fire because of high winds and low humidity - even just after night rains.

Here we go again. The homeless encampment off East 11th Street along the railroad tracks is in the crosshairs of the city and Norfolk Southern Railroad once more. It's pretty much a yearly occurrence over the past decade.

Chattanooga's redistricting committee let this city down.

Not all COVID-19 news is bad news.

Almost five years ago, May 31, 2017, we made a note to ourselves about Chattanooga's Westside: "There is something wrong — just wrong — with starving Chattanooga's Westside until the community so shrivels up that developers can swoop in and get some of our city's most valuable real estate for nothing."

History repeats itself. And so editorials repeat themselves.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Meet your twin/clone/sister in partisan stagecraft - Marsha Blackburn.

To borrow a cliche from another sport, it looks like the Chattanooga Lookouts - and proponents of a new baseball stadium largely free to the Lookouts' owners - are mounting a full court press to convince the public and our leaders it's OK to use our money to build the new sports palace.

There certainly are a lot of scared, angry men these days.

It's hard not to chortle at the gyrations of recent Hamilton County Board of Education meetings where members and watchers endured the board's "special book review committee" conversations and reports.

We need more information. That appeared to be the consensus of our local Tennessee lawmakers on a proposal from Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly via Chattanooga's state Sen. Todd Gardenhire to build the Chattanooga Lookouts a new stadium with a lot of help from us taxpayers.

Knoxville's Jordan Mollenhour is the founder and owner of Lucky Gunner, a Tennessee-based company established in 2009 that sells firearm ammunition online.

As do-gooder stories go, this one is a keeper: Chattanooga area church opens a coffee shop with no crosses, no symbols, no proselytising, no pressure to become a church goer or member.

Your elected Republican lawmakers in Washington want you to think President Joe Biden, not Vladimir Putin, is the bad guy in the Russia-Ukraine war, and they especially want you to blame Biden, not Putin, for rising gas prices.

It gets harder and harder these days to find many people in the Chattanooga area wearing a mask to guard against catching or giving COVID-19.

Robin Smith should have known better. As a state lawmaker, she surely knew it was wrong for an elected House of Representatives member to profit from the state in any way other than through her paycheck as a state rep.

It didn't take long for the nuclear threat of the Russian-Ukraine war to become real. It took less than one week.

Whenever the leaders of TVA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy start talking about partnerships, all of us should itch.

It may seem that Chattanooga mayors and leaders over recent years have thrown a bit of everything but the kitchen sink at trying a ease homelessness in our city.

We have a suggestion for the multimillionaires who own the Lookouts and who want us to pay twice or three times for building them a new baseball stadium on the Southside ...

On the last day of February - and of Black History Month - the North Georgia town of Cohutta in Whitfield County was working to preserve its African American Civic District.