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)

Circuit Court Judge Jeff Hollingsworth on Friday afternoon ruled that the effort to recall Mayor Ron Littlefield was invalid and he canceled a planned special mayoral election in August to replace him. He said the city had not properly enacted the recall provision in its charter and said, even if it had, the city did not have power to set up a two-step recall provision instead ... (click for more)

Twelve attorneys have applied for an interim appointment as judge in General Sessions Court. The deadline was noon today. Attorneys Valerie Epstein and Ron Powers were the latest to enter their names.  David Norton and Mike Acuff applied on Thursday. Others to apply are attorneys Bryan Hoss, Lloyd Stanley, Gary Starnes, Rob Philyaw and Patricia ... (click for more)

Dear Roy,   I am flattered that you and I think a lot alike and that we both use the same 'Rule Book.'  I also agree with you that it is healthy to offer differing opinions.  However, I disagree with you on the issue of discretionary spending.   I did not see you at the Hamilton County Pachyderm Club meeting on Monday.  Sorry that I did not see you ... (click for more)

Eva Milligan, just one of very many across the state who are fed up with Tennessee’s ridiculous auto emissions effort, wrote a letter to Chattanoogan.com last week that painfully told how she had spent over $1,000 to get her 1997 Ford Ranger through the scam and how she was still unsuccessful. She also pointed out such testing is fruitless – except to government coffers – and ... (click for more)