
Opinion: Clock ticking in state and nation for Chinese video platform Tik Tok?
If you know who Khaby Lame and Charli D'Amelio are, we know how you spend your day. And we don't need algorithms to figure it out.
If you know who Khaby Lame and Charli D'Amelio are, we know how you spend your day. And we don't need algorithms to figure it out.
Construction on the original navigation lock at Chickamauga Dam took about a year and a half. The construction of its replacement has taken, well, a lot longer.
No doctor in Tennessee has been charged yet for performing an abortion after the state's 2019 near ban went into effect last year. That's the good news.
Is she a Republican attack dog, a Democrats' poodle or just playing politics the way it must done in Washington, D.C.?
Fifty years ago today, Chattanoogans were drying out from what has since been described as a 100-year flood.
SEAD (social, emotional and academic development) coaches should not be added to the next year's schools' budget unless Hamilton County Board of Education memb…
On the day after the Chattanooga City Council failed to second Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod's proposal to discuss term limits and move the date for city elect…
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" was the Best Picture winner in Sunday's 95th Academy Awards, but it also appears to describe what some Tennessee legislator…
With respect to the two people in Hamilton County currently serving on the Hamilton County Commission and on elected boards of local municipalities, we hope a …
Inflation taketh away, but it also can giveth.
If someone had asked us, we would have told them we think 40 people are too many for a governing body.
Every Instagram user should have supportive friends like state Sen. Randy McNally, Tennessee's lieutenant governor. But today not everybody is viewing that sup…
In the era before a particular presidential candidate named Donald Trump, Republicans often had a difficult time sticking up for themselves.
Future President Jimmy Carter, in frequent visits to North Georgia in two campaigns for governor in 1966 and 1970, offered Chattanooga area residents glimpses …
What do the following have in common?
The late, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh used to frequently invoke the term "words mean things" when he cited hypocritical, hyperbolic or hyst…
We remember some years ago someone sharing with us a newsletter by Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip.
It probably shouldn't surprise us by now, but it seems no good deed goes unpunished when it comes to improving public education.
It's a fact. Some of us are fat. Some of us have horsey faces. And some of us have wonky noses.
Neither term limits nor closed primaries will be in Tennessee's near future.
Hamilton County Commission Chairman Chip Baker was on to something earlier this month when he suggested the commission needed a more deliberative process for a…
That nearly $60 million for a proposed renovation and addition to the Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wasn't included…
In spite of Chattanooga's growing reputation as a logistics hub, we sympathize with our neighbors just across the line in Georgia in their concern about an inc…
Chattanoogans saluting Black History Month likely know the accomplishments of James Mapp, whose 1960 lawsuit sped the integration of local schools, John Frankl…
If lawmakers are truly conservative, why would they be trafficking with a bill that would increase the size of government, hurt small businesses and cause more…
Tennesseans have now come full circle on the subject of closed political primaries.
Tennessee finds itself on a number of glowing "Top 10" lists these days, but there's one list the state would probably like to exit.
Tennesseans of a certain age first may have heard about term limits during the 1994 congressional campaign, when it was a part of the "Contract With America" o…
Hamilton County teachers, in nearly every general category measured, are more dissatisfied with their jobs than they were a year ago, according to the Tennesse…
Does it matter whether two students or 2,200 students are involved in the Tennessee Education Savings Account program if they get a better education than they …
Today's $64,000 question is how we as Americans can regain the sense of proportion we once seemed to have over how to frame our thoughts and reactions over an …
If the full Tennessee state Senate and state House could vote this Friday, they might be willing to pass a bill filed in the legislature that would make Super …
Will the fourth time be the charm?
Hand-wringing continues across the state as school administrators, teachers and parents consider what will happen if the state's new third-grade reading retent…
The image of a child with disabilities being shackled to prevent them from harming themselves or others sounds like an image one might see in a 19th-century il…
Lawmakers in at least 13 states that have banned abortions are grappling with whether to leave the bans in place or determine in what cases exceptions would be…
Hamilton County Commissioner Steve Highlander knows he can't snap his fingers and solve the traffic problems around the Ooltewah exit on Interstate 75, but he …
A presentation to the Hamilton County legislative delegation last week on the need to support the Overdose Fatality Review Act included some stark statistics s…
On Friday night, the world was able to witness what up until then only Memphis police and law enforcement officials had seen — the vicious beating three weeks …
Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp apparently didn't see the hornet's nest he was about to run into when he suggested the county reallocate 4.2% of the federal …
Fifty years ago this week, on Jan. 28, 1973, the ceasefire effectively ending the war in Vietnam went into effect.
In a society where guilt by association seems to be de rigueur, law enforcement agencies all over the country are most likely taking a hit today because of the…
Fifty-two years after being called the dirtiest city in America, Chattanooga once again found its name on a list of the country's dirtiest cities this week.
Did Mars bring the Great M&M's Controversy on itself?
The word "annexation" in a new bill filed in the Tennessee General Assembly has spooked people afraid the state may be seeking to return to the day when munici…
A Chattanooga lawmaker has filed a bill that would keep employees at public schools and universities from being required to take "implicit bias" training.
If the Tennessee House majority leader has his way this legislative session, county elections eventually will shift from May and August to August and November.
The cracks in the Hamilton County Commission that Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp said had been present from the outset of his dispute with County Attorney R…
If-you-build-it, they-will-come worked 30 years ago with the Tennessee Aquarium. But will wide medians, more trees and narrowed streets turn the same trick for…
Does Chattanooga city government need to be reorganized every eight years or every time a new mayor is elected?