In a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.) said President Obama’s higher-education Race to the Top was headed “in the wrong direction” and urged the President to “turn [it] around…and head it in the direction of Washington, D.C., to help the federal government compete for ways to stop adding mandates and costs on States that are soaking up dollars ... (click for more)

The Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton County School’s Performing and Visual Arts Magnet School, are holding their annual auditions for hopeful young artist writers and performers.  The school, recently named one of the four top Performing and Visual Arts schools in America by the International Network of Arts Schools, admits students in five arts areas. The areas ... (click for more)

Two large advertising signs at the Cummings Cove development in Lookout Valley were vandalized Friday. One sign was spray painted with an expletive and another had the word "Aetna" in large letters.  There has been a long-running dispute between owners of Cummings Cove and those who enjoy going up the old Aetna Mountain Road to ride off-highway vehicles. Cummings ... (click for more)

Larry Grohn, Richard Floyd and Basil Marceaux are the latest to pick up for state House races. Mr. Grohn picked up papers for House District 30, a seat now held by Vince Dean of East Ridge. Rep. Dean is considering a race for the state Senate. Rep. Floyd picked up for House District 27, which he has long represented. Mr. Marceaux, who has run for a number of offices, ... (click for more)

Chattanooga is blessed beyond measure to have Ron Littlefield as our mayor.  It is a total travesty our city has had to endure the long frivolous battle with absolutely  no foundation other than disagreement with policy issues.  It has always been a vendetta directed personally at Mayor Littlefield which, if the "interveners" decide to appeal, will be a proven fact.   ... (click for more)

Judge Jeff Hollingsworth, his eagle eyes zeroed on the U.S. Constitution and the laws that have been put into place since it was adopted in 1787, ended the recall of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield Friday afternoon, but the pall of sadness that the effort cast over the city will last for a lot longer. If “time is money,” the whole deal cost us millions of dollars and even more ... (click for more)