The American Heart Association is working with over 100 schools across the country to give students the opportunity to demand accountability by e-cigarette companies for spending millions marketing products directly to youth. Thursday launches the American Heart Association’s national #QuitLying Day, with schools holding conversations and pushing for change across the country. Events ... (click for more)

The Walter E. Boehm Birth Defects Center announce that Megan Swisher has joined its medical staff. In her role as nurse practitioner and clinical care coordinator, Mrs. Swisher will lead the medical case management program for children born with birth defects of the brain and spine. Mrs. Swisher earned her Masters of Science in nursing with a specialization in pediatric care ... (click for more)

After temperatures mild enough to make the forsythia bloom and the daffodils rise, Chattanooga will face mercury dips into the low 20s for several days. The low for Sunday night is set to be around 20 degrees. The sub-freezing weather is due to continue through Thursday morning when a slight warming trend begins. Here is the latest forecast: Tonight Mostly clear, ... (click for more)

Some protestors tried to drown out Rep. Robin Smith at the Women's Rally at Miller Park on a wet Saturday. The Hixson Republican mainly spoke about a Chattanoogan named Abby Crawford Milton, who in 1920 played a pivotal role in securing women the right to vote. Through protest and lobbying, Ms. Milton convinced enough Tennesseans to support women’s suffrage, thus making the Volunteer ... (click for more)

The behavior of our local radical left women was abusive and uncalled for. The next Woman’s Rally and March should be lessons in common decency and civility towards other women. Interrupting an invited female speaker with displays of yelling and holding up disparaging signs is wrong. The women before me that broke the barriers in male-dominated professions would be embarrassed ... (click for more)

During last week’s College Football Championship, the ESPN network teased us with the first 11 of the Top 150 College Football Players of all time. In this new year of 2020, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the college game and ESPN will offer more delights than a Whitman’s Sampler. But, brother, I don’t care what kind of 20-20 vision you may boast, the reality of such ... (click for more)