Clint Cooper

From Boston to San Diego and from Seattle to Miami, the story is the same. Cities can't fill the ranks of their police departments, and the problem is only getting worse.

You know your party is on the outs at the moment in Washington, D.C., if you're proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit burning the American flag.

We can appreciate Hamilton County Commissioner David Sharpe's desire to reallocate county money that currently pays for 27 school resource officers (SROs) to fund security officers for each of the district's 79 schools.

A newly released Vanderbilt University survey of 1,000 registered voters in Tennessee has found that Republicans and Democrats have different opinions.

Is Chattanooga losing its religious groove?

In a matter of a few minutes Wednesday, about one quarter of Hamilton County's geographic area received new leadership.

When the Hamilton County Jail, then called the Hamilton County Justice Building, was dedicated on Jan. 15, 1976, Tennessee's governor, two United States senators, the 3rd District congressman and dignitaries of every stripe were on hand.

Count housing for Chattanooga's homeless as one more item that, in part, will be covered by funds related to COVID-19.

If you want to go to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for the next few years, you can ditch the SAT prep sessions, forget about filling in circled answers on your ACT and won't have to waste a Saturday morning when you could be sleeping.

A little over four years after it was created, the Chattanooga Police Department (CPD)'s Gang Unit has been dissolved.

To date, we have not opined about the FBI raid of legislative offices in Nashville in January because we don't know enough about what is being investigated.

COVID-19 has done more than force us to wear masks, keep us from hugging friends and close businesses. It's also put people in debt - often, debilitating, crushing medical debt.

The tug of war between Gov. Bill Lee's office and state legislative leaders over the bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in the state Capitol building brings to mind the treatment of statuary in the same building of a former president of the United States.

On May 16, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced: "If you are fully vaccinated [against the COVID-19 virus], you can resume activities that you did prior to the pandemic."

What is so galling about the continued transport of migrant children through Chattanooga is not the private firms allowing their facilities to be used and not the nonprofit organizations fulfilling their missions to help protect minor children but that the children's continued illegal flow into the country is not only allowed but sanctioned by the president of the United States.

Have we lost all sense of proportion?

Such an opportunity may never occur again, but a vacancy in two elected positions with overlapping districts offers the possibility of freeing the Hamilton County Commission from the taint of backroom politics.

Over the years, state Rep. Mike Carter's conversations with this page usually took place from his car (hands free, we're sure), somewhere on Interstate 24 between Nashville and Chattanooga.

One hundred years ago, the 1920 census showed Tennessee had more males than females, had a decreasing Black population and relatively few people born south of the country's border, and was a distinctively rural, agricultural state.

You can't miss the "Help Wanted" and "Now Hiring" signs because they're everywhere.