Clint Cooper

If we were to tell you we understood everything about quantum computing, we'd be lying. And you probably wouldn't. believe us anyway.

Wednesday, I walked out of the Chattanooga Times Free Press building for what is likely the last time. Most of my colleagues have already made their way to the newspaper's new headquarters on Market Street, but I'll be working from my home office for the remainder of my six weeks before retirement.

Truth be told, no site in East Tennessee in proximity to a residential community is going to be fully acceptable as a replacement for the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute.

If you listen to critics of education in Tennessee, the only way to fix any problem is to spend more money per pupil.

No Hamilton County student will be hurt by the posting of the Ten Commandments in district schools, but the school district likely opened itself to litigation when school board members voted to move forward Thursday on posting the biblical laws in public schools and public charter schools alongside the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.

We don't know whether anyone could call it widespread dissatisfaction, but certainly there is dissatisfaction in the gubernatorial candidates of the two major parties in this year's Tennessee election.

A year ago, President Donald Trump established the Memphis Safe Task Force, and Gov. Bill Lee signed off on it in order to make the inordinately violent Bluff City safer.

Everybody has a story.

One of the charges against Hamilton County Republican Party Chair Gail Greene in a recent complaint filed to the state Republican Party offered memories of allegations that dogged then-3rd District U.S. Rep. LaMar Baker, R-Chattanooga, for the last two years of his congressional stint more than 50 years ago.

You know all that writing at the bottom of your election ballot that you're unfamiliar with and don't want to take the time to read? Well, get ready. Some of that will be on your November ballot.