Red Bank arrest alleges traveler Luman in transportation business
Jon D. Luman, 3512A Oakland Terrace., Red Bank, Tenn., is a carpenter and handyman and has a stubborn streak visible even today among hardy remnants of old-style Americans. In the summer of 2017, this married man and the father of three grown children had an encounter with a Red Bank police officer who arrested him […]
Sun shines over Red Bank; city attorney refuses to admit TAN
Because Red Bank refuses to acknowledge receipt of transportation administrative notice, I file an affidavit of service. (Photo David Tulis) City of Red Bank is one that refuses to recommend itself to the larger world, and deserves what up through today is a rotten reputation as a municipality, a shaggy place full of empty storefronts […]
Cop-abused business law sparks Red Bank execution of woman
The Red Bank police department uses cruisers like this to chase down private users of the road under the state’s commercial transportation law. (Photo David Tulis) A police chase and slaying of Donna Lynn Allen, 39, in Soddy-Daisy Tuesday highlights the dangers of police departments using business laws to harass non-business users of the public […]
Highway patrol, Red Bank reject public notice rule for roadblocks
If you avoided Highway 41 in Chattanooga along Raccoon Mountain on Friday, you avoided the only Labor Day roadblock in the Chattanooga area. But avoid Red Bank, as it refuses to reveal whether it plans roadblocks this long weekend. Public notice of roadblocks is essential, according to the two key Tennessee high court rulings on […]
Powerful banks + corrupt judges = fraud in TN
Some people and big-money institutions live by a different set of rules and laws from the rest of us. Take the case of Reliant Bank v. Bush in Williamson County and now again before the Tennessee Supreme Court. By Byron Bush / ABetterTennessee.com ANY decision heard by a court of law can be justified or […]
Easy credit fuels retail boom, sacks God’s rule for money
Evidence of the credit boom in northern Chattanooga along Highway153: A retail development still seeking tenants. (Photo David Tulis) Scott Hale of Dayton, busily talking on the phone, is developer of two neighboring retail complexes in Hixson, one containing an Advance Auto set to open month’s end. (Photo David Tulis) A steel structural shell rises […]
Chattanooga Declaration asks breakup of U.S. to end totalitarianism, ease bankruptcy
The Farm Stand at Chattanooga’s Crabtree Farms draws members of the public who want fresh locally grown fare. The ideas of local economy and local food have implications for the size of nations. (Photo Crabtree Farms.) By David Tulis If the concept of local economy appears quaint and inward looking, consider its “foreign policy” implications. […]
Credit card world and its woes; finding our way to cash economy
Perhaps plastic is the real world, and liquidity and honest money are not? (Photo qbservices.net) By David Tulis My dissent from debt-based national economy is visceral. Meaning, I feel it in my bones as if it were a physical force. Because it touches not just the intellect, but emotion, I catch myself being ungracious to […]
Baylor helps reflate economy with state-sponsored $13 million in red ink
Baylor School in Chattanooga is beneficiary of a F$13 million bond issue by the state. (Photo Baylor website) By David Tulis A government body’s creation of F$13 million in bonds for an exclusive private school in Chattanooga is a picture of commercial government writ rich. Last week a board of a state corporate subdivision known […]
Jet flights by hundreds drag white scars across city skies on Lord’s Day
Intense banks of manmade cloud shroud Chattanooga skies after a day in which an estimated hundreds of jets fly over the city, laying sky stripes. This scene of apartment building roofs in Brainerd suggests the intense level of aerial activity over Chattanooga, a civilian enclave not ceded by vote of the legislature as a property […]