Clint Cooper

Six of the seven impeachment managers selected by U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, wanted President Donald Trump impeached before anyone ever heard of the Ukraine whistleblower, whose complaint was made public in late September.

Sixty years after Brainerd High School opened and 50 years after riots marked its increased racial integration, the school has become a pawn on a chessboard in a proposed Hamilton County facilities master plan.

From the reaction Thursday, you'd have thought President Donald Trump had established a state religion.

It was a moment that came and went and may not come back again. But it wasn't Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger's and the Hamilton County Commission's best moment.

High school students in Tennessee have to take a civics test to graduate from high school. Now they also have to pass it.

Many Iranians saw their country's leadership for what it is last week. And although it took a horribly tragic accident to expose it, positive developments could result.

A Babson College official was suspended last week after suggesting Iran make a list of 52 American cultural sites it would consider bombing following President Donald Trump's message the U.S. could target 52 Iranian cultural sites in response to threats by Iranians.

Gov. Bill Lee recently announced policies on refugees and paid family/medical leave that make sense but may rankle some of his more conservative supporters.

Regrets? He has a few.

Each time conservatives expose voting irregularities, Democrats metaphorically wave their hands and scream there's nothing to see, that it's a tiny example in a country in which some 135 million people voted in the last presidential election, that the accusing organization is just trying to suppress votes.

The 2018 criminal extortion case against Hamilton County Commissioner Tim Boyd ended late last year with a whimper and not a bang.

In the space of the next two months, the near term future of Hamilton County Schools will be determined. Every resident of the county should be interested.

Quid pro quo. Ever heard that phrase?

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has not found much traction in her bid to become the 2020 Democratic nominee for president in November, but she finally may have picked the right issue.

Politico recently judged President Donald Trump's prognostication that Alabama would feel the effects of Hurricane Dorian last August as its worst political prediction of 2019.

With the U.S. killing of the man who headed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force and was its top security and intelligence commander, the usual suspects hurried to their corners Friday.

Democrats, with impeachment a relative flop but desperate to tie a losing issue to President Donald Trump, have attempted to make recent armed protests at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, the president's "Benghazi."

Tennessee will begin 2020 on Wednesday with a new law allowing residents to qualify for a state-issued "concealed carry" handgun permit by watching a 90-minute online video training.

Former Vice President Joe Biden's tweeted Christmas greetings last week included a photo of the 2020 presidential candidate, his wife, his surviving daughter and five grandchildren.

What might have been a one-day news story during a congressional session grew in stature because of Christianity Today's founding by the late evangelist Billy Graham, the denunciation of the editorial by his son, evangelist Franklin Graham, and the opposition to the editorial's conclusions by some 200 evangelical leaders.