Category: Whose rules?

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 …

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 …