With unemployment nationally running about 9.5 percent, let’s be sure to rejoice about good job news and increased opportunities for our people in the Chattanooga area.
"With the spotlight still on construction of Muslim community centers and mosques (almost interchangeable terms, like churches and Christian community centers like the YMCA) in areas ranging from California to Tennessee, it disappoints me to find people who conflate Islam with terrorists who corrupt it."
Gov. Phil Bredesen issued a statement this week urging tolerance and respect for religious freedom in the wake of arson at an Islamic center under construction in Murfreesboro.
The first of September in election years is when we welcome newly elected and re-elected local officials, as they are sworn in to office to perform a variety of important duties.
Chattanooga’s Bob Corker has probably never been content tinkering with small problems and little ideas. He’s always been a builder with a bigger vision.
It was appalling when the Obama administration recently agreed to let a U.N. agency known for undermining human rights stand in judgment of the United States’ human rights record.
In an about-face, James Luck went from dodging insurgents along Iraq’s treacherous roads to fighting bad transmissions in his Soddy-Daisy repair shop last month.
Thousands of Tennessee state employees and educators could face a tough choice when picking their health plan this month: Pay cheaper monthly insurance premiums or stay loyal to their regular physician.
Travel is expected to be up by 10 percent across the country this holiday weekend compared to last year, and local and state law enforcement want to be at the end of every bend in the road and at the bottom of every hill.
Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Brooks went to war during Desert Storm and a 2005 tour in Iraq, but it wasn’t until patrols in treacherous valleys in Afghanistan that he faced a prolonged gun battle with hundreds of men who wanted him dead.