Unum Group named Martha Leiper as executive vice president and chief investment officer for the company effective Monday. She is responsible for the investment and asset management strategies of Unum’s $51 billion portfolio (size excludes policy loans). Ms. Leiper previously held leadership roles of increasing responsibility with Unum from 1985-2010, most recently as senior vice ... (click for more)

The Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce will host a Women’s Unity Networking Breakfast on Wednesday, Nov. 13 from 8-10 a.m. at the INCubator in the Hamilton County Business Development Center. "The breakfast is part of our work to increase representation and accelerate growth of diverse businesses and leaders in the Chattanooga region," organizers said. The Women’s Unity Networking ... (click for more)

Two brothers who in 2017 pledged to build a textile plant in economically distressed Bledsoe County that would provide 1,000 jobs have been indicted by federal authorities on a variety of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering charges. Governor Bill Haslam had been among those attending the announcement at Pikeville by Karim and Rahim Sadruddin. Prosecutor Steve Neff ... (click for more)

The head of the citizen watchdog group, Accountability for Taxpayer Money (ATM), says both the Market Center and the The Maclellan apartment building should give up their PILOT tax break agreements. Helens Burns Sharp noted that both have changed their business models and now include short-term rentals. Ms. Sharp sent an email to members of the board of the city's Health Educational ... (click for more)

I appreciate our underpaid teachers here in Tennessee so much. We as a whole have a moral obligation to make sure we contribute to their pay. A wheel tax on our cars is a minimal expense to most of us. Sixty dollars is not enough for us to complain. We shouldn't even bat an eye at that if it contributes to the hard working teachers who sacrifice daily for our children. We ... (click for more)

One summer’s day when I was in my early teens, I was walking home from swimming practice and decided I might stop by the house of the most beautiful girl my age that I had ever seen, which was about halfway between the pool and where I grew up. Told she was at the house next door; I went to find her and was confronted with something I had never experienced. She was being playfully ... (click for more)