Opinion: In Catoosa, Ga., for now, the people will decide who is best for the county
Four Catoosa County Republicans, three of whom are incumbent county representatives, will remain on the ballot for the May 21 primary election, a federal judge…
Four Catoosa County Republicans, three of whom are incumbent county representatives, will remain on the ballot for the May 21 primary election, a federal judge…
We are in favor of Chattanooga City Court Clerk Anthony Byrd making a push to get citizens to pay their outstanding fines and fees, but we wonder why such a co…
He never held elected office or entertained on a stage, but Bobby Parker was as well known to many Chattanoogans as someone who did.
Is this the beginning of the end for Volkswagen in Chattanooga, or simply a new beginning?
We wouldn't categorize it as an apples-to-apples comparison, but a city in North Carolina has shown the way in transforming a state mental hospital with a cult…
It was sad to us that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the bill enshrining a version of the Bible and nine other texts as official state books, and that all but …
We can't say we didn't see this coming.
Got a matter of grave importance to bring before the Hamilton County Commission? Hope it can wait a week.
The scrutiny of Chattanooga City Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod is on the increase.
The relatively quiet determination of the site for a new Chattanooga federal courthouse in 2024 is nothing like the near free-for-all that resulted in the sele…
How do you feel about term limits for members of Congress?
If you took a poll of U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's constituents, you would undoubtedly find majority support for the Equal Representation Act which he is co-s…
Social media has become almost like a Pandora's box, platforms that once open contain much potential evil and are impossible to close.
Tennessee legislators in the past have rightly criticized various courses, instruction and interruptions in the public school day that take time away from acad…
For only the second time in the last 15 years, an incumbent Republican member of the Hamilton County state legislative delegation will have a serious primary o…
The rightward drift of the state Republican Party has encouraged the Hamilton County Democratic Party to field a candidate to oppose each Republican member of …
We were sure someone was playing an April Fool's Day joke when we heard earlier in the week it was suggested Dulles International Airport outside of Washington…
You just have to chuckle when you hear elected Republicans criticized for expressing their opinions about the upcoming UAW election at Chattanooga's Volkswagen…
All the crime statistics that can be mined and all the soothing talk from public officials who mean well aren't going to convince someone who feels unsafe that…
Cities located on rivers across the country likely breathed a sigh of relief last week that the tragedy on Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge didn't happen i…
As March moves into April, bills are being dispensed with in the Tennessee General Assembly.
They finally did it. They found a way to trivialize the Bible in Tennessee.
We don't know Ronnie Kennedy or Joe E. Blevins Jr., but the Marion County men sound like a couple of salt-of-the earth folks who just want potential buyers of …
While you were asleep Friday night, the Senate passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, which was signed later in the day by President Joe Biden.
Hamilton County is not yet one of the 36 Tennessee school districts that recently filed lawsuits against social media companies demanding accountability and ac…
A decade ago, then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam was pushing his Drive to 55 initiative, which had a goal of 55% of Tennesseans earning a post-high school degree …
If we didn't know better, we'd think the report came from the satirical publication The Onion.
Donald Trump won 60.7% of the vote in Tennessee in the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, including 54.6% in Hamilton County in 2016 and 53.6% in 2020.
The Chattanooga City Council is expected to consider a resolution today applying for a $500,000 federal Corridor Identification and Development Program grant w…
The Tennessee Valley Authority is seeking community feedback on what to do with its 1,149,000-square-foot, five-building, nearly 40-year-old downtown complex, …
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly evidently is satisfied Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy only has a paperwork problem.
With the revival of a school vouchers bill in the Georgia General Assembly this week, school choice proposals have been, are, or will be in discussion in all t…
We think the state Board of Education is onto something with a resolution last week urging Gov. Bill Lee and state legislators to focus earlier on struggling r…
It seems only fitting there would be a residency dispute involving a candidate for the Democratic nomination for a state House in Hamilton County. Similar disp…
When Georgia overhauled some of its voting laws in 2021, the hue and cry about voter suppression rang out from leftists in the smallest Peach State counties to…
If you're talking about an upcoming opponent in your State of the Union message, either the actual state of the union isn't very strong or you're very worried …
As we watched the Super Tuesday speeches of Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Nikki Haley earlier this week, we couldn't help thinking of Ron…
"I inherited a broken system. ... The first thing I did [when first elected in 2010] was we put a moratorium on those terrible earmarks." — U.S. Rep. Chuck Fle…
Before Monday's United States Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump can appear on the presidential ballot in Colorado, the former president was facing a myria…
On Tuesday, voters in Tennessee will cast a ballot in, among other races, the presidential preference primary.
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And with two unanimous votes it was done.
Gov. Bill Lee's Education Freedom Scholarship program may grab most of the headlines, but other consequential legislation is quickly moving forward in the Tenn…
Hamilton County may have increased its number of "reward" schools during the 2022-2023 school year, but data released last week by the Tennessee Department of …
The 2018 South Broad District Study was clear in its intent about the importance of The Howard School in the study's "vision for revitalization."
The Tennessee Department of Education, after years-long delays, returned this year to assigning letter grades to its public schools to give parents a more comp…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's Education Freedom Scholarships program apparently will head to discussion next week in at least state Senate committees without the r…
The number of Americans who lived in what was known as the "golden age" of train travel, which ended in the late 1940s, is rapidly diminishing.
A marriage bill with all the romance of a Donald Trump judicial hearing landed on the desk of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Valentine's Day.
When we learned earlier this week that Chattanooga would be creating a partnership with its seventh sister city, we wondered if the city was an outlier for its…