Pam Sohn

The historic W Road running from the Mountain Creek community to the top of Signal Mountain is a treasure — until you get sandwiched in a line of traffic after a tractor-trailer following a wayward GPS signal has become wedged in one of its rock-and-cliff-lined hairpin turns.

Parents, teachers and taxpayers in our Southeast Tennessee region have an opportunity next Thursday to spout off and suggest new approaches to Tennessee's nearly three-decade-old school funding formula known as the Basic Education Program — BEP, for short.

There's nothing — not even hashing out some redistricting maps — that can't be done with good old-fashioned hard work and transparency. Finally.

A bill filed in advance of this week's Tennessee General Assembly special session on COVID-19 says government agencies and businesses can require vaccinations for employees — but are barred from requiring any proof.

One late evening last winter, newly elected U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came bounding down a set of stairs and announced to a video camera: "Just finished with our meetings here at the White House. This afternoon we had a great planning session for our January 6 objection."

In 2014, Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger was seeking re-election for his first full term after being appointed to the seat in 2011 and winning an abbreviated term of office in a 2012 special election.

There was good news and bad news on the health front this week. And thankfully more good news than bad — at least in the short term.

Any idea that the process of redistricting was progressing smoothly in Hamilton County was shattered this week.

If you expect this week's Tennessee General Assembly's special session to review and approve incentives for the state's recently announced Ford plant to get a little sticky, you're not alone.

Tennessee's Republican politicians are demonstrating the same irresponsible and self-defeating behavior that some Volunteer fans showed Saturday night.

Former U.S. attorney for North Georgia, Byung J. "Bjay" Pak is our guy.

Our own North Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, has never seen a camera she didn't like.

Chattanooga officials and some city residents took a big and needed step Tuesday by meeting to talk candidly about gun violence in our city.

Now we know what the "opt out" mask mandate has done for Tennessee.

The passage of Chattanooga's city budget last week sailed in and out the council chambers without a hitch - a pretty remarkable feat given that the $302 million budget gave raises to lots of city employees (especially police), did not defund police (a demand from some in our city) and included a $30 million city property tax increase (something that usually brings screams from the public).

Hello, Ford. Welcome to the new world - the new world of transportation post-combustion power.

"The message we're taking forward is, put the guns down. It shouldn't have to happen to someone you know. Seven women were shot. That should make all of us cry."

Chattanooga had a mass shooting Saturday night. Two women were killed and five other females - the youngest was 14 - were wounded.

The saga of the would-be Bellefonte Nuclear Plant continues — but not with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on board.

State Rep. and Chattanooga Democrat Yusuf Hakeem is rightfully calling out the state's GOP legislative leadership for sidelining his bill to provide more Black history instruction in Tennessee schools by omitting it from the agenda of a summer education study committee.