Opinion: I don’t like goodbyes. How about ‘Thanks, and until later’ instead?
I don't really know how to say goodbye. But I must.
I don't really know how to say goodbye. But I must.
We noticed last week that Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp, who said she couldn't unsee and couldn't unsmell some the things she saw at the Budgetel…
The Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition is now covering the cost of 18 hotel rooms for families displaced from the Budgetel Inn.
Cue up Tennessee Republicans to stomp their feet and bigfoot school, parental and individual rights or decisions — again.
File this under the heading of "another Tennessee bill packaged under the guise of helping education but actually giving cover to another Tennessee failure."
Is the dam breaking on the Hamilton County Commission after three months of stubborn stonewalling with new Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp?
Here we are again in Chattanooga "re-imagining" something. This time, we're re-imagining Broad Street as "a park with a street" running through it.
Affordable housing has become the one of the buzziest buzz phrases of our time here in Chattanooga. And it should be. We have a growing problem here.
Even as climate change is supercharging weather extremes and driving record years for billion-dollar disasters, and even as concerns are raised repeatedly by t…
We won't deny it. The punk artsy homemade bench painted red and white with the big sign reading "This bench is illegal, but shouldn't be" brought us a big smil…
Think of this as our Hamilton County Clown Show, saga 14: The Sequel and The Prequel.
It's safe to say many Chattanoogans received some unexpected and surprising news Monday: Despite two high-profile mass shootings here last summer, city residen…
The Tennessee Valley Authority finally has a full slate of board members after the U.S. Senate at the 11th hour in December confirmed six new directors nominat…
How would you grade the health of Chattanooga and Hamilton County economies?
Hey, county commissioners: You've already spent about $72,000 to defend a rather indefensible position -- to dig your heels in to save the job of a county atto…
On election day last November, voters told Chattanooga Times Free Press staffers something that surprised us.
1. COVID-19 at long last began to recede from our lives and our headlines as more people came around to getting vaccinated and taking common-sense precautions.
It's the eve of 2023, and as good a new year as any to stretch, stand tall, change the future, make a difference.
Life happens. Sometimes it's pretty. Sometimes it's not.
Don't let TVA or anyone else tell you that our rolling blackouts over Christmas weekend were cause to believe we rely too little (or might more so) on fossil f…
One of the greatest gifts of Christmas is the place we make in all of our hearts to celebrate the joys of the season together.
Good response, commissioners
This week we watched two elected Republicans in action as it relates to crimes and sentencing -- or at least crimes and adjudication.
My family used to make fun of me because I'd start thinking of Christmas crafts and gifts I wanted to make for people in July. And I'd seriously get started on…
Sad to say, no one should be surprised that Tennessee's Department of Children's Services is in shambles. Not just disarray. Not just poorly managed. In shambl…
We've heard it before and we'll likely hear it many more times: Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp say's he'll keep pushing in this coming year to build a vocat…
Finally — finally — the Hamilton County Commission put aside most of its acrimonious pandering and voted unanimously Wednesday to put $50,000 toward helping re…
With the increasingly depressing news of late about homelessness, and with too few local officials — except for Chattanooga city leaders — interested even in d…
The plea was straightforward. And Jon Berestecky with the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition got right to the point as he addressed the Hamilton County Co…
As if Hamilton County schools didn't face enough of an uphill battle, the climb is likely to get steeper still with a bill introduced by Tennessee Sen. Todd Ga…
To say the more than two-hour meeting of the Hamilton County Commission this week was a head-shaking crash course in "dysfunctional" would be great understatem…
If you're thinking you've been reading a newspaper full of stories about local homelessness lately, you're not entirely wrong.
Like a children's game of name-calling, the feud over whether Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp can fire county attorney Rheubin Taylor smolders on — now six w…
In the space of a long Thanksgiving weekend, we've pushed away from overfilled tables, dashed out to swarm through Black Friday sales with thousands of like-mi…
Somewhere around 700 people were made homeless in the week before Thanksgiving when East Ridge police, armed with a Hamilton County court order, closed the Bud…
It's Thanksgiving in Chattanooga, and we've just had 700 people tossed out into the cold.
What seems like "the perfect storm" for Howard School is on us -- taxpayers, parents, school board members and officials of Hamilton County.
Tennessee has the country's strongest abortion ban, and the anti-abortion groups that helped write and pass the law that made it that way want to keep it that …
The Hamilton County Commission circus continued Friday.
What do you do with 700 people suddenly out on the streets a week before Thanksgiving after the hotel they've been living in -- some for more than a year -- is…
Voter turnout in Tennessee was down by about half a million from the 2018 midterms, with the Tennessee Secretary of State's office reporting (still unofficiall…
Despite the barrage of news stories and pundit commentary you have seen in recent weeks hyping higher grocery and gas prices to scare an Election Day red wave …
Blame it on Ariel, a character from "The Little Mermaid."
Our hat's off to the Tennessee Valley Authority and its new plan to to build a 100-megawatt solar farm over a covered coal ash disposal site at the Shawnee Fos…
By now, you're probably tired of reading summaries that make fun of the highly vaunted "red wave." Instead, we've witnessed a red trickle, a red puddle, a red …
The list of Hamilton County Attorney Rheubin Taylor's outside-of-county-business estate cases can't help but have cost us poor county taxpayers extra money — a…
One has to wonder what the homeless are supposed to do.
In mid-to-late October, we spent a lot of ink detailing how Tennessee's and Georgia's federal lawmakers of the Republican persuasion gaslighted us over and ove…
Residents of Hamilton County ought to be madder than hornets today while our Hamilton County commissioners -- all 11 of them -- and our county mayor and our fo…
Surely everyone can agree that no one in 2022 should be thinking about -- let alone saying out loud -- ways to torture our fellow human beings, our neighbors, …