Thirty-one years after she graduated from high school, Angela Flynn is back in school as the only woman and the oldest student in her welding class at the Chattanooga State campus in Kimball, Tenn.
Local businesses, on average, generate about 2 percent more in taxes for Hamilton County than out-of-town contractors hired to do the same work, according to an economic study released Friday.
The Davidson County Republican Party voted Tuesday to remove First Vice Chairman Matt Collins, a vocal critic of gubernatorial candidates U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, from his position on the party's executive committee.
Contracts awarded to local bidders generate 2 percent more in city and county tax revenues than contracts given to non-local contractors, according to a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga study released today.