Escapees kill 2 ’drivers’; but apps help others on road turn profit
Covenant Transportation Group in Chattanooga has 1,000 team driver trucks in its tansportation fleet of 2,600 for-hire vehicles. (Photo CCJdigital.com) Driving and operating a motor vehicle are words describing a single activity subject to state regulation and police powers in the public interest. And that is getting behind the wheel of a car or truck […]
Citizens appear to reject ‘double nickel’ police stop reform
Chris Perry and Payten McClain Perry. (Photo Facebook) The changes required in Tennessee traffic enforcement will be long in coming because of popular opinion that defends abusive mechanisms that harass blacks, the poor and strangers in the land. Common people of the sort who use Facebook universally reject the idea of a transportation stop reform […]
Abigail Tulis available for portraits, murals, art projects
Abigail Tulis at work in Culemborg, Netherlands. (Photo Huub Claessens) Abigail Tulis, your editor’s daughter, is fruit of a Christian family and sturdy upbringing in Christ’s covenant with His people. The New York artist is in Chattanooga for a few days, visiting family and helping tend to an ailing grandmother. Abigail, 26, is the eldest […]
Traffic court misuses statute, bullies poor people, upholds fiction about ‘transportation’
Christina Wright, a fast-food shift manager, is unable to get a license because the test keeps changing. She travels the roads freely, but faces arrest under an abusively used statute directed solely at licensees. (Photo David Tulis) Traffic court is a venue for maintaining among the commonest people the idea that no liberty of travel […]
Prison system frees Whipple, lawsuit still hanging
Robert Z. Whipple, right, in 2010, with his dad, Bob, at graduation. (Photo Bob Whipple). Prison inmate Robert Z Whipple was released this week, a month after he had been granted unconditional parole his freedom curtailed by what he sees as administrative harassment for his continuing litigation against the Tennessee Department of Correction. He will […]
Small towns, big cities should mind limits of Title 55: Only transportation subject to cop controls
Police in cities great and small in Tennessee have authority to enforce the transportation law at Tenn. Code Ann. Title 55 upon transportation — namely, trucking and shipping. Small towns such as East Ridge, Red Bank, Soddy-Daisy should be careful about limits of law on their police activities. (Photo Courtesy NoogaRadio) TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE AS […]
For 25 years, no abortion clinic has ‘served’ Chattanooga
An abortion truth truck tells the story of abortion in the U.S., a practice that hasn’t been publicly a part of life in Chattanooga for the past 25 years. But 9,732 babies were slaughtered in Tennessee in 2016, at least 355 of them from mothers residing in Hamilton County. (Photo Fletcher Armstrong blog) Twenty-five years […]
How many children would have to die for Hammond to shut schools? 5? 17? 23?
Sheriff Jim Hammond addresses the press after speaking to the school board about ways to prevent a massacre or stop one while in progress. He has not been convinced to exercise his authority as the most powerful peacekeeper in Hamilton County, Tenn., to close public schools and thereby save lives. (Photo David Tulis) If closing […]
UnifiEd dreams of education world only free market can create
Seeking blessings of free market, while rejecting it. UnifiEd proposes school reforms. (Courtesy NoogaRadio 92.7) Tweet Pin It
Paying penny a day, people yield rights, avoid the accuser
Coal and nuclear utility TVA runs a police army that enforces traffic laws against private users of the roads, and claims jurisdiction to enforce transportation statutes anywhere in the state at any time. (Photo TVA) My correspondent Levi is a working man in middle Tennessee. A self-made legal scholar, Levi often sends me trenchant analyses […]