Category: Whose rules?

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 …

A proposal to ban the begging of alms in Chattanooga takes heavy fire at the city council Tuesday among critics of the measure who say it makes the city ungodly and uncharitable. But the nine …

Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond is mulling questions i sent him March 8 following a March 1 interview with 92.7 FM NoogaRadio regarding the rules for transportation enforcement. Sheriff Hammond is highly guarded in the …

The following is a thank you letter to a Christian minister who has just given me an hour to discuss the possibility of a police reform that will benefit African-Americans and other people in the …

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 …

I realize it will take a while for the policy and political implications of transportation administrative notice to take effect. For busy men such as Mayor Andy Berke and city attorney Wade Hinton, it will …