It was the topic of conversation for the boys on the hallway wall, we sophomores who'd arrived at Brainerd High School before the first bell in the mid-Septemb…
The United States Senate is now supposed to get used to John Fetterman in sweats. How about Chuck Schumer in a wife-beater, Dianne Feinstein in a bikini or Mit…
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is one of two Tennessee House members to receive an "A" on a new report card from a coalition called Republicans for Ukraine, which…
We wonder sometimes if Hamilton County Board of Education members talk just to hear themselves speak.
We have to admit our suspicions about the potential for a legitimate impeachment of President Joe Biden were raised last week when the White House said it plan…
An archeological assessment is all that stands in the way of a new psychiatric hospital being built on Moccasin Bend and two or three more generations passing …
When police react to an imminent threat of what they believe is a drawn and pointed weapon, they are trained to respond with lethal force.
If body builders can deduct the cost of body oil from their income taxes, if brides can take a charitable deduction for their donated wedding dresses and if ce…
The State Building Commission may be the last roadblock in preventing another two or three generations from passing before the full expansion of the Moccasin B…
Fifty years ago this week, plans were announced for a downtown park sought by many Chattanoogans for perhaps another 50 years.
Eighteen months before the next city election, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly announced on Thursday that he would be a candidate for re-election.
The caller had a point to make about blood donations.
A Knoxville state representative is hoping to parlay her notoriety as one of the so-called "Tennessee Three" to the United States Senate in 2024.
To generations that man-on-the-street interviews show can't name the two countries that border the United States, don't know whether the U.S. has ever had a fe…
As long as there are letter grades given in schools, there will be students saying the grades don't represent how hard I worked, how hard I'm trying, what I ha…
And now, as famed radio broadcaster Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story ... about Tennessee's third grade reading law.
Well, they can't say they didn't warn us.
Our dictionary definition for "pachyderm" is "a very large mammal with thick skin, especially an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus."
Perhaps in January, they'll all be on the same page, all smiles again, all ready to pass conservative measures for the people of Tennessee.
Don Sundquist, the two-term Tennessee Republican governor and six-term United States House member who died Sunday, was often underestimated.
A social and economic equity study? Why not, we haven't had one in two or three weeks.
We'll admit to somewhat of an admiration for the Tennessee Valley Authority for forging its own path amid climate change hysteria, for zigging when critics thi…
Tennessee Republican voters who tuned in to Wednesday night's first GOP presidential debate probably had several things on their mind.
Millions of conservatives across the country abhor being called racists by Democrats and their media friends because of the actions of members of some far righ…
The protesters at last week's Chattanooga City Council meeting wanted video — wanted to see precisely what happened in the encounter between 34-year-old Roger …
With the proliferation of social media, we wouldn't suggest any student let loose words, phrases or images in their free time intended to embarrass school pers…
Call it an official suggestion, for that's all the request this week for an emergency session of the Georgia state legislature by state Sen. Colton Moore, R-Tr…
A Hamilton County Schools facilities working group has submitted a sensible, three-year, first phase of recommendations that calls for the closing of six schoo…
National polls for several years have said a majority of voters don't want a rematch of the 2020 presidential election in 2024.
Is an internal survey that shows Chattanooga police officers are dissatisfied with the department leadership something to worry about?
We seem to be slow learners about vaccines.
A three-judge panel has dismissed a lawsuit by the Tennessee Education Association, which means teachers' paychecks and union dues now will be severed.
If you believe what you read, you would conclude that the upcoming special session of the Tennessee legislature on public safety will be a dud, with little of …
State Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, has been in office for nearly 11 years, but he's been supportive of school voucher-type programs for much longer.
It's not your imagination.
The Hamilton County district attorney's office has a new resource in a battle against the opioid scourge — a chief opioid prosecutor.
A new study on school shootings in Tennessee over the last 25 years shows that half of the 12 fatalities over the period occurred at The Covenant School in Nas…
Though public statements about what a new state law would do to the Chattanooga Police Advisory and Review Committee (PARC) have been a bit hyperbolic, it is a…
It's about to get a lot hotter, and we're not talking about the temperature outside.
In just over three weeks, a special called session of the Tennessee General Assembly will gavel to order to discuss what Gov. Bill Lee said would be strengthen…
It happens frequently in the retail world.
Hope you've enjoyed a 2023 free of election signage. Within six months, you'll likely see them popping up all over Hamilton County again. A year from today, th…
We remember a few of those math tests where the concepts — be they fractions, coefficients or slopes — hadn't quite settled in place. A grade in the 50s would …
The Hamilton County Schools district accentuated the positive in its comments about the TCAP data released last week by the Tennessee Department of Education, …
A proposal to rebuild Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute on a smaller footprint further around the Tennessee River bend from its current site on the state-o…
If forecasts are correct, by the time you read this the smoke from wildfires in Canada will have dissipated from our area and the air quality in Chattanooga wi…
We suppose it's no different from states setting their own policies on education, abortion, infrastructure and how economic activity takes place, but we have s…
The more socially vulnerable a community is, the less resistance its residents have to extreme heat exposure.
Let the grumbling begin.
