News - Friday, November 22, 2024

A Chattanooga resident with no means of transportation lands a job as a cook and begins a daily walk across town to reach work and then return home.

A teenager is booted out of their Chattanooga home and lands on the streets with meager possessions and no resources.

Although this is only a partial list of the many small, locally grown nonprofits that serve the Chattanooga area, the list of services is broad and their impact deep. Visit each one online to learn more about the help it provides and how to donate and volunteer.

The American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) has inducted Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel attorney Chris Poole as a Fellow.

Poole was one of 88 from across North America inducted into the college in a recent ceremony attended by approximately 900 Fellows and guests at the ACTL annual meeting in Nashville. He is one of 13 Fellows in Chattanooga.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded a $3.5 million grant to establish the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Quantum Center.

The funding from NIST, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, will be awarded over a four-year period in support of four distinct areas, according to UTC Vice Chancellor for Research Reinhold Mann: infrastructure; education and outreach; use of case-driven research and development; and business development to ensure the center’s sustainability.

Dr. Robert Dooley has been appointed interim chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dooley, who will assume the role Jan. 1, is a longtime leader at UTC and an alumnus of the university.

Dooley earned a Bachelor of Arts in religion and philosophy and an MBA in finance from UTC. He holds a doctoral degree in business administration from UT Knoxville.

Little kids usually grow up dreaming about winning the Heisman Trophy, not the Burlsworth Trophy. They all want to be starters right away, not stand on the sideline and patiently wait for a turn that may never come.

Being a walk-on isn’t an easy path in college football, but it can lead to great outcomes. Will Brooks is a testament to that.

Mapleleaf Realco, a new Chattanooga-based real estate development firm, plans to invest more than $50 million across five new projects on Chattanooga’s Southside.

The slate of developments includes townhomes on Madison Street and two new residential buildings and three projects on East Main Street, including a top-to-bottom renovation of the former Atlas Bolt building into restaurant and retail space.

As we move into the final quarter of the year, housing market trends continue to evolve on both the local and national levels.

Recent data from the National Association of Realtors  shows a shift in buyer activity. In the Chattanooga region, however, the market is experiencing steady growth in new listings and inventory, creating both opportunities and challenges for buyers and sellers alike.

One person’s ugly brick building is another’s portal to history. That empty lot? Sure, maybe something happened there 50 years ago, but now it could hold a condo complex or three.

These are some of the conversations as Tennessee cities tackle an increasingly dire housing shortage. Denser infill is seen as a way to help solve the problem because in-town, bigger lots, sometimes empty or with only one dwelling or structure, are natural targets.

Hamilton County Schools (HCS) hosted its biennial Partners in Education Awards Breakfast at the Read House Nov. 15. The event brought together a wide range of nonprofits, businesses, volunteer organizations, government entities and individuals who “contribute their time, talent and resources to impact educational outcomes for Hamilton County students,” says Dr. Justin Robertson, Superintendent of Hamilton County Schools.

Everybody, it seems, is doing better than you are.

There you sit, a complete adult, but you can’t stop noticing others who are thriving while you’re feeling lost. Find a new job? Ask for a new client list? Take a vacation now rather than waiting? Other people thrived this year, it seems, but you’re stuck – so find the new book “I Decided to Live as Me” by Kim Suhyun. It’s time for a new direction.

On Sunday, Nov. 10, Amtrak’s newest long-distance train route made its inaugural departure. In September, the U.S. railroad company announced it would temporarily resurrect the long-retired “Floridian” and its Chicago-to-Miami route.

The holidays are coming and so are the car deals. As the year draws to a close, many manufacturers will have end-of-year or holiday sales designed to bring shoppers into showrooms and move metal.

In addition to checking out these promoted sales, it can also be helpful to know which outgoing model-year vehicles automakers and dealers are selling at a significantly discounted price.

Amid employee strikes, manufacturer controversies, service outages, and President Joe Biden’s crackdown on industry policies, American air travel is having its most tumultuous year since 2020. The United States Department of Transportation’s (DOT) latest report found 2% of August flights were canceled, surpassing their year-to-date cancellation rate of 1.7%.

NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. stocks are rising Thursday after more companies said they're making fatter profits than expected. Market superstar Nvidia also topped forecasts, but Wall Street's ambivalence about whether the heavyweight's report was impressive enough is keeping indexes in check.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Matt Gaetz withdrew Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general following continued scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on the former congressman's ability to be confirmed as the nation's chief federal law enforcement officer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Elon Musk first suggested a new effort to cut the size of government, Donald Trump didn't seem to take it seriously. His eventual name for the idea sounded like a joke too. It would be called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a reference to an online meme featuring a surprised-looking dog from Japan.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in October, the first annual gain in more than three years, with home shoppers encouraged by easing rates and a pickup in properties on the market.

Existing home sales rose 3.4% last month, from September, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.96 million, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. That matches the annual pace set in July.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed Thursday after market superstar Nvidia and another round of companies said they're making even fatter profits than expected.

The S&P 500 pulled 0.5% higher after flipping between gains and losses several times during the day. Banks, smaller companies and other areas of the stock market that tend to do best when the economy is strong helped lead the way, while bitcoin briefly broke above $99,000. Crude oil, meanwhile, continued to rise.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security declined to testify publicly at a scheduled Senate committee hearing Thursday on global threats to national security, a break from standard protocol of open testimony before the panel.

THE HAGUE (AP) — The world's top war-crimes court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas' military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with the 13-month war in Gaza.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged higher in midday trading on Wall Street Friday, keeping the market on track for its fifth gain in a row.

The S&P 500 was up 0.1% and is solidly on track for a weekly gain that will erase most of last week's loss.

WASHINGTON (AP) — After several weeks working mostly behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role: Helping Donald Trump try to get his most contentious Cabinet picks through Senate confirmation in the Senate, where Vance has served for the last two years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department, turning to a longtime ally after his first choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name from consideration amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate won't hold votes on four of President Joe Biden's appellate court nominees as part of a deal with Republicans to allow for speedier consideration of other judicial nominations and bring Biden within striking distance of the 234 total judicial confirmations that occurred during President-elect Donald Trump's first term.

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump won't be sentenced this month in his hush money case, instead setting a schedule for prosecutors and his lawyers to expand on their ideas about what to do next.

Amid a flurry of filings in the case since Trump's election win this month, it had already become clear that the Nov. 26 sentencing date wouldn't hold. Judge Juan M. Merchan's order Friday formalized that without setting a new one.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

HONG KONG (AP) — Higher tariffs on Chinese exports will backfire, just increasing prices paid by consumers, while China can manage to weather the impact of such "external shocks," a senior Commerce Ministry official said Friday in Beijing.

Responding to a reporter's question about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose 60% tariffs on imports from China, Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said that would "not solve the country's own trade deficit problem."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House passed legislation Thursday that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism, alarming civil liberties groups about how a second Trump presidency could invoke it to punish political opponents.

DALLAS (AP) — Delta and United have become the most profitable U.S. airlines by targeting premium customers while also winning back a significant share of travelers on a tight budget.

That is squeezing smaller low-fare carriers like Spirit Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday. Some travel-industry experts think Spirit's troubles indicate that travelers on a budget will be left with fewer choices and higher prices.

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — A new draft of a deal on cash to curb and adapt to climate change released Friday afternoon at the United Nations climate summit pledged $250 billion by 2035 from wealthy countries to poorer ones. The amount pleases the countries who will be paying, but not those on the receiving end.