Tag: Welfare

The local officials who have received administrative notice about the scope of the Tennessee transportation law are bound with especial duty to obey the law’s plain meaning, pursuant to ordinary rules of statutory construction. My …

Rob Whipple was released in June from a Tennessee prison and is finding that his criminal record for property offenses is holding him back in a new life in Louisiana. He is self-taught in law, …

City councilman Demetrus Coonrod, humbled by a Christian mediation session, utters a public apology Tuesday to Marie Mott and a former gang member who a week before had decried police aggression and the lack of …

A family with a high-end house in North Shore won approval for an Airbnb use from city council Tuesday despite opposition from 2 neighbors who cited a litany of complaints about a narrow street and …

City council gets an earful of discontent Tuesday focusing on police abuse and the connection between poverty, harassment and the paltry capitalization in some city districts. A former gang member and city councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod …

My reading in Tennessee law strongly indicates a general purpose of the modern state; to make private citizens public citizens, to transfer lawful private activities into the public realm, subject to supervision, taxation and licensure. …

Marc Gravitt is the register of deeds in Hamilton County, a former state legislator who has a ministerial duty under the law to record deeds and other instruments of people wishing to file them. By …

County attorney Rheubin Taylor and county register Marc Gravitt are resisting entry into the county record books a document called transportation administrative notice. The notice has powerful implications for police and sheriff enforcement along the …