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Chattanooga: Rising food bills sprout gardens at churches, neighborhood groups
Ron Bohrer happily jabs at the dirt, pushing away the weeds that continually creep up beside his rows of tomato, radish, squash and okra plants.
May 16, 2008
Chattanooga: High prices for steel, concrete make life tough for builders, manufacturers
Some in the construction, manufacturing and fabricating industries say they’re squeezed by volatile commodity prices and trying to juggle expenses with what they charge their clients and still make a profit.
May 15, 2008
Chattanooga: Eatery serves lunch crowd
Southern Star has alighted in its new home on Broad Street, one that gives the restaurant more room for diners and is easy to find, the owner says.
May 14, 2008
Chattanooga: Utility costs spur sticker shock
Chattanooga utility costs have increased faster than inflation over a five-year period, data show, at a time when many consumers are also trying to cope with record fuel prices.
May 13, 2008
Whisper Creek at Windstone features 1920s-style neighborhood design
Whisper Creek at Windstone is the 12th and final phase of the Windstone subdivision, which is in Georgia and Tennessee. Windstone is gated and features a private golf course.
May 11, 2008
Chattanooga: 1,109 EPB customers subsidize cleaner electricity
EPB officials say the number of customers willing to plunk down green cash for producing so-called green power has doubled.
May 10, 2008
Chattanooga: BlueCross milestone
Construction workers topped out BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s new downtown Chattanooga headquarters Thursday as the insurer aims at moving in its first office employees in January.
May 9, 2008
Chattanooga: Pub owners plan brewery
The owners of the Hair of the Dog Pub hope their plans for a new Southside brew pub will breathe new life into a crumbling 100-year-old building in downtown Chattanooga’s Southside neighborhood.
May 8, 2008
Chattanooga: Rising food prices make shoppers pull up short
Chattanoogan Ellen Allison usually makes two or three trips to the grocery store each week to buy food for her family of eight.
May 7, 2008
Chattanooga: Farm Bureau markets insurance, retail outlets to city folk
At a time when downtown living has become hip, some say the rural lifestyle is holding its own and companies are finding a niche by serving people escaping the rat race.
May 6, 2008
Tour to sample Chattanooga area houses
Are you curious about what new homes being built here are like but figure it’s too much trouble to visit dozens of neighborhoods for a good sampling?
May 4, 2008
Chattanooga: Rooftop gardening is making a comeback
About 15 years ago a proposal to put a green roof on the expansion of the Chattanooga Convention Center failed to get the support it needed from city officials.
May 3, 2008
Mayfair work begins: Demolition at 700 block of Market long awaited
The orange barrels are out, the chain-link fencing is up and, more than two years after the buildings were bought, work has started on the revamp of the 700 block of Market Street.
May 2, 2008
Chattanooga: Earnings momentum may slow in downturn
Unum Group’s earnings jumped in the first quarter on solid gains across its business lines, though an analyst downgraded the insurer’s stock over worries a soft economy may hurt it.
May 1, 2008
Chattanooga: High gas prices hurt delivery businesses
Matt Lamb manages a fleet of about 100 drivers at Express Courier Inc., but lately he wonders how long many of them will stick around.
April 30, 2008
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Chattanooga: Rising food bills sprout gardens at churches, neighborhood groups
May 05, 2008
Ron Bohrer happily jabs at the dirt, pushing away the weeds that continually creep up beside his rows of tomato, radish, squash and okra plants.

Tennessee Valley Business

Area oven factory may be part of GE divestment
May 05, 2008
Roper Corp., which has an almost 2,000-employee oven-making plant in LaFayette, Ga., could be sold as part of a reported General Electric plan to auction off its appliance division.

Chattanooga Diary

Chattanooga: Bankruptcy Filings
May 05, 2008
These are new cases, according to court records, filed in the Chattanooga and Winchester offices of U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s Eastern District of Tennessee May 8-14.

Ellen Phillips

Consumer Watch: Bumping rule doubles traveler’s compensation
May 05, 2008
Doesn’t an airline have to compensate me if it deliberately overbooks and my connecting flight leaves without me? I’m really angry that I missed an important meeting last week.

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