Category: Localism

  About 150 residents pack city council chambers Thursday in a rare show of civic spirit among a people who usually let elected officials work without supervision. But more than 16 people rankled at the …

Neal Pinkston is an elected state prosecutor and an important man, slugging it out in Hamilton County courts to defend the state of Tennessee. It personally is the victim of every burglary, theft, assault, domestically …

It may be good that Chattanooga city government is bureaucratically slow in getting into gear its surveillance of the short-term vacation rental market. Donna Williams of the mayor’s economic and community development office has the …

A local charity that cares about character development is allying itself with a city police department that exhibits a strong culture of deceit and aggression. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 But the unfortunately named …

Every speaker at city council voices outrage Tuesday at a proposal by Mayor Andy Berke’s police department to outlaw the soliciting of alms in Chattanooga. A host of residents call Chief David Roddy’s plea for …

A long time homeschool dad has joined the local homeschool board and hopes to make the Chattanooga-Southeast Tennessee Home School Association more useful to families whom he suspects face a moral and social let down …

The following is a letter sent to Jim Hammond, sheriff of Hamilton County, Tenn., regarding an interview about the laws he is charged with enforcing — among them, the transportation statutes in the Tennessee Code …

Sheriff Jim Hammond declines to answer questions about his authority to impose the transportation statutes on people in Hamilton County, saying he is unprepared to discuss the matter and that he will defer to traffic …