Rants

  • The Rant

    If bike lane paint could fill potholes, Chattanooga would have the smoothest roads in North America. Thump.

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    Thank you, Hamilton County. McDonald Farm was a smash success for the county fair.

    by Community Submissions

  • The Rant

    Right on, Mark Kennedy! I will keep buying the Sunday paper as long as your column is in it.

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    R.I.P. Riverbend Festival, you served us well.

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    I hope the broken city sidewalk in front of the CHATT Foundation is not an indication of how the city will take care of the proposed low-barrier shelter.

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    Riverbend served Chattanooga as a meaningful part of city's history. Time to send it to the taxidermist, hang 'er on the wall and remember it occasionally.

    by Community Submissions

  • The Rant

    RiverCity website: "downtown's best place to do business and have fun." Quit overselling; acknowledge "boiling point" violent crime as other leaders have respo…

    by Community Submissions

  • The Rant

    Just moved back to town after six years. Stunned about the demise of North Shore and downtown. COVID really hurt things. No people anywhere.

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    Sixty-six arrests. Who has 66 arrests and walks around free with a gun? Don't care what you look like. What's wrong with our legal system?

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  • The Rant

    Hey, Chattanooga Airport people, as you contemplate more direct flights, I'd rather fly to Colorado than grubby ole Texas.

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    "Gentrification" is the wrong way to describe CHA's approach to Westside residents trapped in surrounding redevelopment. Conscious-less, paramilitary and heavy…

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    Embarrassing that we had to ask for the public's help to find a downed $100 million military jet. No beacon?

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  • The Rant

    Positive, aspirational rant: Coach Rusty Wright, your motivation speech to UTC football players was reported as transformational. Please, please take this spee…

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  • The Rant

    Donated blood supply depleted by fleeing shoplifter and passenger hospitalized after causing six-car crash on I-75. Violent criminals, store your own blood. Pl…

    by Community submissions

  • The Rant

    Hipsterectomy — The action taken by first responders and other responsible adults to rescue outdoor music festival hipsters from severe weather and dangerous f…

    by Community submissions