Category: Whose rules?

Under Tennessee law, a parent who does not wish to have vaccines for a child can obtain a religious exemption. This is a signed and written statement by the parent, citing those beliefs against vaccination …

Pot luck beats soup kitchens as Christians develop personalistic, open and charity-oriented ideals of local economy, entrepreneuership and free market. How business and capitalism bring the poor into the possibility economy.  The book is Practicing …

Police’s routine claims upon travelers are in evidence in a noisome arrest video posted by businesswoman Jayla Oattes showing the arrest of her mother at a gas station on Wilcox Boulevard in Chattanooga. By David …

Once given notice, officials have to obey the law or face personal tort lawsuits by victims of their abusive activities. My lococentric reform project seeking greater godliness in SE Tennessee, one town at a time: …

Traffic court is a venue for maintaining among the commonest people the idea that no liberty of travel by car exists and that Americans, especially the poor, must make obeisance to popular legal fiction. The …

Neal Pinkston prosecutes taxpayer watchdog Tim Boyd. Sheriff Jim Hammond hounds immigrant laborer Rodriguez for using car. Bradley deput cuffs man using phone camera. Darrin Ledford, other city council members OK unconstitutional panhandling ban. (Courtesy …

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 …

Sheriff Jim Hammond refuses to order a shutdown of Hamilton County public schools even though he describes them as being subject to a “type of war” — the gunman killing a son or daughter “every …