Opinion: Chattanooga Police Department survey results need not be end of the story
Is an internal survey that shows Chattanooga police officers are dissatisfied with the department leadership something to worry about?
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.
As Chattanooga gears up for phase two of work on the Interstate 24-Interstate 75 interchange, once called the state's worst intersection, a new study indicates…
We're glad no one put a final "hold" on the decision to award Signal Mountain's Larry Taylor the Medal of Honor for his actions in Vietnam 55 years ago.
Three years ago this week, the residual crimes from the June protests in Chattanooga over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody were…
Fifty years ago, the thrust by Black Chattanooga activists was that the city put into practice the federal Fair Housing Act passed by Congress in 1968 and the …
We find the headline of a Beacon Center of Tennessee poll released Thursday rather ho-hum because it tells us what we and most people in the state already know…
Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp said if he had it to do all over again, regarding his attempt to fire Hamilton County Attorney Rheubin Taylor, he would have …
Tennessee's Office of Legislative Administration could use an abundance of sunshine.
Over the years, much has been written and spoken about the state of Hamilton County schools, much of it bemoaning how teachers have it better elsewhere, what p…
Keep the pedal to the metal.
Just over a decade ago, Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield was frankly and good-naturedly hoping the Scenic City would sooner rather than later pass Knoxville i…
A report released Monday by the Sycamore Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, indicates that gun deaths are on the rise in Tennessee.
A report released Monday by the Sycamore Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, indicates that gun deaths are on the rise in Tennessee.
True, it's a national snapshot, but news on achievement test scores of United States students is not getting any better.
The parks plan unveiled by Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly Tuesday likely will be thought of by some the same way the city's 1911 plan by renowned landscape archit…
"Library displays are created," according to the director of the E.G. Fisher Public Library in Athens, Tennessee, "to briefly accent portions of the library co…
It's not like the subject was never going to come up again.
Experts confirm that crime almost always increases when people have time off, whether that be weekends, summers or holidays.
Baby boomers who grew up playing and loving baseball had among their heroes Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Billy Williams, Ernie Ban…
To hear the Hamilton County Board of Education discuss it, it sounded a lot like blackmail.
Hamilton County Commissioner Warren Mackey, D-Lake Vista, is often abrupt and sometimes obtuse during commission meetings, but he also is consistently supporti…
Because of the decrease in fossil fuel plants, an old idea suddenly looks new again in the consideration of power generation for TVA.
It seems fairly clear by now that reading is fundamental to success throughout one's education.
On Friday, a Hamilton County man made his first appearance in Hamilton County Sessions Court for his fourth DUI and vehicular homicide, among other charges.
Raise your hand if you wondered as a child if the number of phone numbers would ever be exhausted.
Tennessee Republican members of the United States House of Representatives apparently have different ideas about how the country's fiscal house is to be put in…
For the second time in recent weeks, a current or former Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputy accused of exhibiting aggressive tactics has been cleared or f…
The first Black superintendent of the Chattanooga National Cemetery wasn't appointed in the post-civil rights era as a progressive symbol, or even any time in …
If U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah, has his way, $263.9 million in community project funding — commonly known as earmarks — will flow into Chattanooga …
Catholicism, gay pride and baseball clashed recently on the West Coast, and the resulting carnage is stomach-turning.