With winter coming, when electricity use is higher for heating as well as lighting and cooking, and with the national economy sluggish, it is certainly good news for many that the Tennessee Valley Authority is able to cut December "wholesale" electric rates by 5.5 percent.

What would be better for Tennesseans in general than to have economic success, making us all able to support a good standard of living and happy lives?

From time to time you read in the newspaper about someone being caught in a "Ponzi scheme." You may ask: Who was Ponzi and what did he do that causes his name to be used these days.

Heavy downtown traffic crosses the broad Tennessee River daily in Chattanooga via the Chief John Ross Bridge at Market Street, the P.R. Olgiati Bridge and the Veterans Bridge. But our Walnut Street Bridge, no longer used for motor traffic, is still import

Maybe it's easier for Chattanoogans to be optimistic about the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Moccasins football team early today -- rather than later.

With a rush on in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and by President Barack Obama to impose a ruinously bureaucratic and costly system of socialized medicine upon Americans, it is interesting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate version of proposed legislation would cost "only" $849 billion!

Our Chattanooga National Cemetery is one of the finest, most scenic and most historic national cemeteries anywhere in the world. It was established in November of 1863, after the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge in the War Between the States.

Former Tennessee state Rep. David Copeland hasn't been in the political spotlight lately, but he isn't forgotten.

Critics of the U.S. detention of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say the facility there is populated by prisoners who were simply in the wrong places at the wrong times in the war on terrorism.

It's understandable if most Americans do not pay close attention to the small Central American nation of Honduras. But it is good nonetheless that the United States is no longer defending the former president of that country, who was rightly removed according to Honduran law after he tried to take dictatorial power.

Most people don’t really “like” any kind of taxes, although we know that many of them are necessary for the orderly operation of our government and our society. But probably, one of the most “unlovely” and least popular of taxes is our local “sewer service fee.”

President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress have peddled for months the claim that ObamaCare socialized medicine would reduce medical spending. But based on common sense and analyses of ObamaCare's costs, the American people just haven't bought that claim.

This brief heading came up in a recent scan of the news wires: "ACORN lawsuit."

While many Americans among our generally well-fed people are struggling with problems of bulging waistlines, it is highly disturbing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that one in seven American households has struggled to have enough food for reasonable nutrition during the past year.

The reports about pirates from the East African country of Somalia attacking and demanding ransoms from ships in the Indian Ocean seemed to have dropped out of the news recently. But attacks have continued, with dangerous and outrageous incidents. Now there has been another noteworthy one.