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.
Stories by Clint Cooper
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Opinion: Chickamauga Lock replacement taking longer to build than Taj Mahal and Buckingham Palace
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.
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Opinion: State Senate should take measured route of House on abortions exceptions
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.
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Opinion: Blackburn sounds partisan in public, but bipartisan legislation suggests she’s trying to get things done in D.C.
Is she a Republican attack dog, a Democrats' poodle or just playing politics the way it must done in Washington, D.C.?
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Opinion: Devastating flood 50 years ago this weekend would have been much worse without TVA
Fifty years ago today, Chattanoogans were drying out from what has since been described as a 100-year flood.
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Opinion: Hamilton County school board wrangles with hiring more 'coaches' to help students with social, emotional and academic development
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…
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Opinion: Tennessee lawmakers give term limits a fair hearing but Chattanooga City Council serves up only silence
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…
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Opinion: Tennessee gun bill supporters want everything, everywhere all at once
"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…
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Opinion: Bill in state legislature would prevent relatively recent ‘double-dipping’ of government officials
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 …
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Opinion: Will inflation turn out to be a friend of Lookouts stadium construction in the long run?
Inflation taketh away, but it also can giveth.
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Opinion: Reducing the size of government in Nashville — by state edict — not the way to go
If someone had asked us, we would have told them we think 40 people are too many for a governing body.
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Opinion: Lieutenant governor’s questionable social media posts open him to charges of hypocrisy
Every Instagram user should have supportive friends like state Sen. Randy McNally, Tennessee's lieutenant governor. But today not everybody is viewing that sup…
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Opinion: Score one for Tennessee’s governor in Twitter back-and-forth with California governor
In the era before a particular presidential candidate named Donald Trump, Republicans often had a difficult time sticking up for themselves.
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Opinion: Early North Georgia campaign visits presaged Carter’s presidency, post-presidency years
Future President Jimmy Carter, in frequent visits to North Georgia in two campaigns for governor in 1966 and 1970, offered Chattanooga area residents glimpses …
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Opinion: Tennessee now has banned abortions, Black history, books and drag shows, or has it?
What do the following have in common?
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Opinion: Lawmaker’s apology for ‘hanging by a tree’ comment falls short; it’s ‘better to remain silent’
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…
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Opinion: Dispatching ‘Dilbert’ while criticizing the sensitizing of Dahl books not the same thing
We remember some years ago someone sharing with us a newsletter by Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip.
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Opinion: Align charter school rules instead of criticizing their presence
It probably shouldn't surprise us by now, but it seems no good deed goes unpunished when it comes to improving public education.
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Opinion: Sensitizing children’s books opens a can of worms we don’t need
It's a fact. Some of us are fat. Some of us have horsey faces. And some of us have wonky noses.
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Opinion: Term limits, closed primary bills fail to convince House subcommittee members
Neither term limits nor closed primaries will be in Tennessee's near future.
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Opinion: Lighthouse Collective discussion example of why Hamilton County Commission needs consistent policy on nonprofit
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…
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Opinion: UTC business college renovations may not get funded this year, but we doubt they’ll have to wait long
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…
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Opinion: Studies, reports show truck weight limit increases have detrimental effects on roads and bridges
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…
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Opinion: Today’s local Black leaders stand on the shoulders of giants they may not know
Chattanoogans saluting Black History Month likely know the accomplishments of James Mapp, whose 1960 lawsuit sped the integration of local schools, John Frankl…
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Opinion: Expanding government to compete with private business is a bad idea. Don’t mess with foreclosure notices.
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…
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Opinion: Tennessee lawmakers, don’t close state’s primary elections
Tennesseans have now come full circle on the subject of closed political primaries.
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Opinion: Tennessee can’t seem to fall out of top 10 among WalletHub’s most sinful states in the U.S.
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.
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Opinion: Richey wants to make Tennessee 17th state in the country with term limits for state legislators
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…
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Opinion: State Education Survey indicates local teachers less satisfied with their jobs than a year ago
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…
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Opinion: If it helps two or 2,200, why not add Hamilton County to state’s voucher program for schools?
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 …
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Opinion: Reactions to Memphis stop, student video examples of our out-of-proportion society
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 …
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Opinion: Good idea this week, but in hindsight a Super Bowl Monday holiday seems a bit excessive
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 …
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Opinion: Fleischmann’s Cherokee Lands Act passes U.S. House for fourth time, but will Senate act?
Will the fourth time be the charm?
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Opinion: Tennessee lawmakers revisit 3rd grade retention law
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…
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Opinion: Closing restraint loophole for students with disabilities or inviting discipline fallback
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…
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Opinion: Limited exceptions to Tennessee’s abortion ban are necessary
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…
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Opinion: Easing Ooltewah traffic snarls necessary for future Hamilton County growth and development
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 …
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Opinion: Fentanyl deaths abound as legislature asked to consider overdose fatality review groups
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…
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Opinion: Memphis, state reforms were no help to Nichols in police beating death
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 …
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Opinion: Who chooses spending priorities seems to be at heart of dispute between mayor, County Commission
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 …
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Local history: Three local Vietnam POWs said to be returning after cease-fire in war 50 years ago
Fifty years ago this week, on Jan. 28, 1973, the ceasefire effectively ending the war in Vietnam went into effect.
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Opinion: ‘Unabashed’ beating in Memphis; meanwhile, on Signal Mountain ...
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…
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Opinion: Once ‘dirtiest city in the country,’ Chattanooga on Lawn Starter list as 102nd dirtiest city
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.
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Opinion: Did Mars bring The Great M&M's Controversy upon itself?
Did Mars bring the Great M&M's Controversy on itself?
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Opinion: Watson vows no going back on forced annexation
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…
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Opinion: Information on differing races, sexes and cultures is important, but remove the ‘bias’ in order to offer instruction
A Chattanooga lawmaker has filed a bill that would keep employees at public schools and universities from being required to take "implicit bias" training.
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Opinion: Elections bill in Tennessee legislature would make future August ballot a voting bonanza
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.
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Opinion: Hamilton County Commission’s once-unanimous support for county attorney showing cracks
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…
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Opinion: Big ‘if’s’ surround Broad Street makeover plans
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…
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Opinion: Does Chattanooga government have to be reinvented every mayoral term?
Does Chattanooga city government need to be reorganized every eight years or every time a new mayor is elected?