Tuesday night was a night of celebration for the Chattanooga Football Club. After announcing Jeremy Alumbaugh as managing director earlier in the morning, Alumbaugh and various team executives, fans, and players mingled at Chattanooga Brewing company. The setting was much more relaxed (and warmer) than the icy confines of Finley Stadium from the morning press conference. Alumbaugh ... (click for more)

KNOXVILLE – Thoughts of last year are so last week for Tennessee’s football team. The sweat had barely dried following last Saturday’s 17-13 victory Kentucky over Lexington, Ky., when Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt reminded the players that they had reached the same juncture as last season. Those Vols proceeded to plunge off a cliff, losing to Missouri and Vanderbilt. “That’s the ... (click for more)

Governor Bill Lee was at Enterprise South Industrial Park on Wednesday to celebrate the start of an $800 million electric vehicle plant by Volkswagen designed to employ about 1,000 workers. The Chattanooga facility, with 700,000 square feet of space, will be the first to produce Volkswagen's modular electric toolkit chassis, also known as MEB. The new electric model may be out ... (click for more)

Brothers Rahim and Karim Sadruddin on Wednesday entered guilty pleas in Chattanooga Federal Court to two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with a promised textile mill in Bledsoe County that never materialized. The Sadruddins were charged as part of a scheme greater than $30 million to defraud FEMA, TVA, and the state of Tennessee related ... (click for more)

A wise man once wrote that reading about tax increment financing is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Yes, it is boring, but it is important that the city use this tool wisely to create economic development opportunities and to build community trust. On Thursday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m., the Industrial Development Board (IDB) will hold a public hearing regarding a proposed ... (click for more)

For a guy that endured the evolution of personal computers, I’ve never forgotten one of the earliest truths: “GIGO -- Garbage In, Garbage out.” As a newspaper reporter who started with Royal portable typewriters, then went to “telecopiers,” and then “Telerams,” and then Radio Shack’s first really portable computer and on down the line, I still marvel at mankind’s genius. When I ... (click for more)