The blood supply across the nation is critically low and most of the country’s blood centers are reporting extreme declines in blood donations. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the nation and within the community, AABB and ABC (America’s Blood Centers) are joining with Blood Assurance to urge eligible donors to make and keep an appointment to give blood now. Blood ... (click for more)

Urgent Care for Children, a Birmingham-based pediatric urgent care provider, will be expanding its reach to Chattanooga in late fall by opening its eighth clinic. The River City location will sit at 5207 TN-153 Road, across from CHI Memorial Hospital. As part of its 2020 expansion plans announced in March, this addition is the company’s second clinic outside of the state of Alabama ... (click for more)

There may be as many as a dozen candidates in the race for mayor of Chattanooga, and likely even more. Picking up petitions to run thus far are Monty Bruell, D'Angelo Davis, Russell Gilbert, Tim Kelly, George Ryan Love, Andrew McClaren, Erskine Oglesby and Elenora Woods. Others who have said they plan to run include Chris Dahl, Wade Hinton, Keith Smartt and Kim White. Informal ... (click for more)

Chattanooga Fire Fighters Association President Jack Thompson said city officials plan to raise all city employees to above the federal poverty rate, but it will not apply to firefighters. He said firefighters start out at $10.54 an hour and do not reach the hourly poverty rate until eight years. Mr. Thompson said, " The City of Chattanooga administrators have been publicizing ... (click for more)

Nov. 3, Election Day, is right around the corner. Of course, voting is fundamental to elections. It is through voting we both give our consent to those we entrust to govern us and hold those governing us accountable. From our right to vote come many of our rights and freedoms. Every day seems to bring new stories about disputes over voting, many of which are pursued through lawsuits. ... (click for more)

Late last fall, there was a story that got a lot of mileage and for good reason. Donald Trump’s economic trade policy of America First signaled that our President had the guts to say “enough is enough” to The Marshall Plan, which by all rights should have been discontinued about 50 years ago but was not. It enabled the countries we were eager to help following World War II to continue ... (click for more)