Clint Cooper

Tim Kelly and Kim White may not agree on which of the two is better suited to be mayor of Chattanooga for the next four years, but they found one topic on which they wholeheartedly agreed Monday night.

The immigration crisis at the country's Southern border is solely of President Joe Biden's making, and the sad thing is it didn't have to happen.

The Biden administration long knew it would not be honoring then-candidate Joe Biden's August 2020 promise not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000, but it just forgot to tell the president (or he forgot to commit it to memory).

If you follow Washington politics, you know the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are in somewhat of a hurry.

The individual elected mayor of Chattanooga in next month's runoff will be the first to achieve that office in the midst of a global pandemic, without the backing of crowds at rallies, without venues full of people to see the candidates explain their differences in person, and without the amount of interaction between candidate and potential voter that is usually possible.

In a political era where leading Democrats, including the president of the United States and the Senate majority leader, alter long-held positions because they no longer suit the base of their party, it is refreshing to have a governor in Tennessee who is not afraid to be the conservative he told voters he was when he ran for the office in 2018.

"[O]ur home has been repeatedly vandalized by phantoms who came at night," the Black man said.

Fifty years ago, across the South, federal courts ordered the busing of students to achieve a racial balance of Black and white students in public schools.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom told state residents last week the coronavirus pandemic will end soon, but Californians will never be "going back to normal."

Fifty years ago this week, educator and funeral director John Franklin earned a spot in the runoff election for the position of commissioner of education and health in Chattanooga's then mayor-commission form of government.

One year. Three hundred sixty-five days, though not a typical January to December trip around the sun.

That congressional Democrats can look anyone in the eye today after passing a $1.9 trillion bill and call it COVID relief is beyond belief.

The Chattanooga gun crime trend lines are going the wrong way.

By midday Monday, the open slots to receive first-dose COVID-19 vaccines for the rest of the week at Walmart supercenters in Hamilton County had been filled.

Bishop Richard Stika of the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, whose jurisdiction includes the Chattanooga area, is no fan of President Joe Biden's rosary flaunting when religiously convenient.

Have you noticed the bait and switch? We're sure you have.

C'mon. It's just a comic strip.

The "Tim and Kim" runoff for Chattanooga mayor that had been expected for months has come to fruition after Tuesday's municipal election that saw just shy of 25% of the electorate go to the polls.

Red Bank Commissioner-elect Hollie Berry told the Times Free Press after her race in November that she planned to make good on the ideas she discussed with voters.

Some might say it's much ado about nothing to quibble about a recent 1% raise voted for Hamilton County education personnel, but it's not the raise itself but how it happened that bothers us.