Mike Little: Cited to city court, you are wise to know your rights, its limitations
Mike Little is an experienced criminal defense attorney in Chattanooga and an adjunct law course professor at UTC. The candidate for Hamilton County criminal court shares his insights into rights of the defendant and traffic stops. [I feel it will be most useful to hear Mr. Little’s unfiltered explanations about how inferior courts work, given […]
City enforces Bible law vs. theft, but will abolish office as antiquated
A scale at Bi-Lo lets shoppers estimate prices on produce before they are weighed on the cash register scale. By David Tulis For probably more than 100 years Chattanooga city government has had an office called sealer, whose duty is to enforce honest weights and measures. “The table of weights and measures provided by law […]
Classified as a fallen woman, she crept, knelt, wept
Her hopes had been high despite whispered warnings to herself about contacting a prospective husband through the newspaper classifieds. In the personal listings of other single women she had seen a vague outline of herself. Single mom, SBF, 39, 5’7″, one child, likes walks in the park, travel and going to the movies. Looking for […]
How free market concept of ‘open platform’ could revitalize our paper
Liberating the creative people on its second-floor newsroom could give the Times Free Press new vibrancy as the newspaper industry is menaced by the empowering media freedom of the Internet. January 10, 2012, newsroom Jason Taylor, President, Chattanooga Publishing Co. Dear Jason, The arguments for transforming Chattanooga Publishing […]
Old guard media seek to refashion itself in market decentralization
Callie Starnes and Antwan Harris, journalists for WRCB TV-3, tell bloggers and social media activists how the station is shifting operations to the Internet. Behind them is Derrall Stalvey, the station’s news director. As a latecomer to independent local media, I have much to learn from people to whom use of Internet networks is old […]
The nobility of dissent; we say no to status quo, urge alternative
I am thinking today about the 193-page court opinion on Obamacare — National Federation of Independent Business vs. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services — and how to avoid adding to the cloud of commentary that many worthies have offered. But before I can take the hours to read it, I give a […]
As U.S. falters, paper can prosper by refocusing on local economy
My sketch sees Times Free Press staffers under a deadening bubble, where all their professional lives are directed to two main products (paper, website). I propose that their servitude under employment not exclude other writing, that they be given liberty to be productive on their own websites as collaborators or clients of the company. By […]
Group rankled by public prayers in Christ’s dread, awful name
Critics of religion have fired an opening salvo against the Hamilton County Commission for public prayers uttered before meetings by the elected representatives of the people. Ferf, or the Freedom from Religion Foundation, based in wintry Wisconsin, sent a letter this week to commission chairman Fred Skillern demanding that the civil authority cease prayers in […]
Homeless efforts gain, but city zoning vote imposes legacy cost on Union Gospel Mission
From left, Fred Katschke, Rick Hazelrig and Josh Harley of Union Gospel Mission enjoy a moment’s conversation at a disputed duplex which city government is blockading from its full use, keeping eight homeless men on the streets. People count the cost of civil government as levies, imposts, taxes and fees. At 1040 time, half the […]
The value of your own people and local economy in a personal crisis
You have agonized over your plan for an abortion, half horrified at yourself, and half proud that you are bold enough to consider such a difficult step to exit your dilemma. You are pregnant, not married; the baby’s father doesn’t want to marry you, and you are not sure you would want to marry him, […]