Are Hamilton County commissioners trying to tell Hamilton County residents that they don't want us to have any say — again — in how our money is spent?

Early this year, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced a plan to reform the state's criminal justice and public safety system.

The craziness keeps coming.

It's time to padlock Coyote Jack's, the downtown restaurant, bar and nightclub in Southside that in less than five years and several rebrandings has been the scene of three fatal shootings, 10 non-fatal shootings, 23 calls to police to report "shots fired" and 470 total requests for police assistance.

"Researchers assembled over 100 voting machines. Hackers broke into every single one."

By now, you've likely seen video of President Donald Trump's rant against the "do-nothing" Congress or seen his profane Thursday tweet denigrating them.

Last November, Bob Corker reminded us why we would miss him in the U.S. Senate when he returned to private life in Chattanooga in January.

When does this madness end? There was Donald Trump again, pandering for the cameras and microphones Thursday, this time to ask another foreign country, China, to interfere in an American election.

As President Donald Trump and his allies attack the whistle-blower who prompted the House's impeachment inquiry, the still-unidentified person gained a new and powerful ally Tuesday: Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley.

There is something to be said for having an impending deadline in politics, and for U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, that means devoting his final three months in office toward advancing legislation he hopes will help reset Washington's stalemate over gun violence.

Let's talk about Joe Biden.

We hear and read a lot about how climate change will make sea levels rise. We don't hear or read so much about the other effects of climate change on our oceans. At least we didn't until last Wednesday when a major new United Nations report dropped.

Things are moving fast.

Turning blighted communities around is rarely easy. If it were, we wouldn't have blighted communities.

To impeach or not to impeach. To impeach himself, or not to impeach himself.

Patience is a virtue, goes the maxim. And we're seeing patience have its day this week at what has become known as East Chattanooga's Tubman site.

Around the country and here, hundreds of thousands of young people poured into the streets Friday for a day of global climate protest.

To say that Tennessee American Water obfuscated its responsibility to give Chattanoogans answers and confidence in their water utility's trustworthiness last week is being kind.

It was inevitable. With a president like Donald Trump who knows no ethical boundaries, it was inevitable that we sooner or later would be looking at quid-pro-quo election interference 2.0.

Just seven days ago, we received some kudos from community leaders for our editorial observation last week that Erlanger's plan to name a new CEO so quickly - at its regularly scheduled Sept. 26 meeting - was ill conceived.

Tennessee on Tuesday became the first state to put forth a plan to turn Medicaid into a block grant - an idea long supported by conservatives to reinvent (some say rupture) the federal government's 50-year-old agreement with states to pay for safety-net insurance for the poor.

"At American Water, we keep life flowing."

"Restricting voter registration drives in order to try to preserve election commission resources is like poisoning the soil in order to have an easier harvest."