One plant saved, one shuttered; local economy makes winning argument
Dayton’s Goodman Daikin manufacturing plant is being closed by its Japanese owners. (Photo WDEF News 12, wdef.com) By David Tulis Allan Jones of Cleveland, Tenn., earns millions in a payday loan business that gives him enough capital to rescue a sinking clothing maker in his hometown. His recent buyout of Hardwick Clothes is a picture […]
Resisting arrest a constitutional right lost in rise of Progressivism
Las Vegas cop beat a restaurant patron because he doesn’t clear out quickly enough. (Photo copblock.org) See Part I of Mr. Roots’ essay here. The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior By Roger Roots Nothing illustrates the modern disparity between the rights and powers of police and citizen as much […]
City gets taste of ‘negative emissions’ as scientists debate solar radiation controls
A fresh aerial cancer of artificial clouds get an early start Jan. 5 in the Chattanooga area, as seen from my hilltop in Soddy-Daisy, in North Hamilton County. (Photo David Tulis) My early morning walk off my hilltop in Soddy-Daisy is marked by policy doodles that are part of the American war against global warming. […]
Give a hand to Thrive 2055 for ‘regional vision’ over free markets
The rippling water staircase has, for now, dried up in downtown Chattanooga. (Photo Chattanooga Visitors Bureau) By David Tulis The marketplace is that great mass of men and women who interact in commerce for the benefit of their customers and in their own self-interest. Its power to produce wealth rests in the fact that it […]
In quashed Fed indictment, 23 grand jurors explain why 2015’ll be lousy
A U.S. prosecutor quashed an indictment of the Fed in 1982 in this federal court house and post office in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo GSA.gov) There is more work to be done to ensure that all Americans can share in the accelerating recovery. — Jason Furman, council of economic advisers, White House By David […]
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 […]
The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior, apart
Protesters in dowtown Chattanooga join thousands around the country in late 2014 protesting police slayings of unarmed people. (Photo Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson on Facebook) Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, […]
To block rays reaching city, aircraft apply solar prophylactic, dim the sun
A crabby day in Jacksonville, Fla. Sky striping, some say, is an unuttered blasphemy against nature, hidden in the silent thoughts of the deep state and, in the ears of the public, making sound only in the throb of distant jets. (Photo Facebook) A jet trail over my house in Soddy-Daisy casts sideward and upward […]
My Brother’s Keeper may be lofty program, but borrows from knave
President Barack Obama is doing somebody a favor in this image from the My Brother’s Keeper program on the White House website. Please read my essay at Chattanoogan.com Tweet Pin It
Retail giants care little for customer, want only his money
A newspaper flier for a major chain store in Chattanooga. By Charles Hugh Smith Will we ever tire of navigating the multiple layers of intermediaries between the customer and the provider, while corporate profits soar to unprecedented heights? If we had to summarize what’s wrong with Corporate America and the entire U.S. economy, we can […]