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One year into his first term, Commissioner Jeff Eversole, R-Ooltewah, narrowly beat Commissioner Joe Graham, R-Lookout Valley, on Wednesday to serve as the next chair of the Hamilton County Commission.
The Hamilton County Commission debated the spending of county funds on municipal facilities Wednesday morning.
Our dictionary definition for "pachyderm" is "a very large mammal with thick skin, especially an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus."
Mayor Weston Wamp used a political appearance Monday to attack Hamilton County Commissioner David Sharpe as an "obstructionist with a partisan agenda" and to blast Sharpe's main political base — Red Bank — as an area whose leaders "have run it completely into a ditch."
The facility will now be called the Hamilton County Jail and Detention Center.