Joe Bonamassa will perform at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium on March 3 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $202, $152, $132, $102, $92, $82, and $72 (plus taxes and service fees) and will be available here Friday. Review for Joe Bonamassa: Two time Grammy-nominated blues-rock guitar icon Joe Bonamassa announces his new U.S. spring tour dates for 2020 in support of his latest ... (click for more)

RISE Chattanooga (formerly known as Jazzanooga) has announced its lineup of artists who will perform on the lawn of the Bessie Smith Cultural Center each Thursday at 6 p.m. from Aug. 22-Oct. 24 for the free Levitt AMP Chattanooga Music Series. Sponsored in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, a national funder of creative placemaking that empowers communities to ... (click for more)

A consultants report says the Hamilton County Schools have $1.36 billion in facilities upgrade needs. That does not include costs associated with adding capacity or account for cost saving associated with closing schools, the report by MGT Consulting Group says. The report says a preferred size of a school would have 1,000 students. The average enrollment at county schools ... (click for more)

The Signal Mountain Council voted to increase property taxes by 20.434 percent on second and final reading on Monday night. This makes the tax rate $1.8866 for every $100 of assessed value of a property. For a median price home in the town of $250,000, this will mean an increase of $200.07. Moves to reduce the budget to the get to this rate included eliminating an unfilled ... (click for more)

I write this opinion today under my own free will, without any suggestion or prodding from the management of Erlanger Health System. As a medical doctor employed by Erlanger, I am on the front lines taking care of people. Erlanger is an excellent health system and an excellent place to receive care. It is easy to sit back at a distance and decree how things should run. It is a different ... (click for more)

Anthony de Mello, a Jesuit monk before he died in 1972, would have us to believe, “I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. “Then one day someone said to me, “Don't change. I love you just as you are,” Tony ... (click for more)