Thrive 2055 survey pretends to weigh concerns, pushes centralizing agenda
This scene is from a YouTube video peddling the idea of regional planning. By David Tulis Survey results by the marketing company behind Thrive 2055 help us enter into the larger agenda of having a gaggle of 16 area counties join forces to create a new identity. The government-funded program is designed to induce the […]
That’s all Chattanooga needs — more ‘overarching leadership’
A helicopter refurbished by a veterans group is hauled toward its park pole in Soddy-Daisy on Feb. 28, 2014. The private sector pulls the public; it’s not the other way around. (Photo David Tulis) [O]ur biggest obstacle to achieving a larger civic vision is the sad lack of over-arching governmental leadership, vision and collaboration among […]
Local economy theory so sweet that Obama borrows it in chat
President Obama works on his state of the union address with speech draftsman Cody Keenan on Jan. 22. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) By David Tulis My wife, Jeannette, looks at me and rolls her eyes when she considers I quit a part-time wage-earning job as a newspaper editor to take up the […]
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Local economy avoids brittleness, interlocking credit monoliths in national sector
A confidence crisis in the bar, left, caused the 2008 meltdown. What about the bar at right? What’s that? (Graphic DanielAmerman.com) By David Tulis If you are like me, you value small steps toward greater financial independence. You are progressing in plans to start a small home-based business. You are less intimidated by shaky prospects […]
Piranha marketing pits chain stores against local economy shops
This flier in the Times Free Press newspaper offers a 110 percent price match to beat back local economy players who have lower prices. By David Tulis The eighth commandment (“Thou shalt not steal”) is framed as a negative. Like all God’s commandments it imposes positive duties, as well. It requires that we “endeavor, by […]
What the dads wrote on the brown napkin
[Originally published in August 2012. — DJT] By James Hindman Christian dads, especially homeschoolers, place a huge burden on the shoulders of their wives. Each morning most of us leave our often chaotic home with its timetables, unit studies, book laden tables for the quiet confines of our offices or place of employment. Many of […]
From hands of few into hands of many; free market aids Chattanooga
Public schools, like this one in Bradley County, Tenn., are a legacy system being supplanted by the free market and the World Wide Web. (Photo Bradley County schools website) The prospect for liberty in my hometown, Chattanooga, and yours is brighter. This assertion rings true despite almost daily reports about the rising police state. A […]
Localism undoes ‘E pluribus unum,’ giving federal eagle gentle heave-ho
The imperial eagle’s scroll says “E pluribus unum,” or “From many, one.” By David Tulis On the back of the F$1 bill is an engraving of an eagle, a busy bird. On one claw is a clutch of arrows, representing war. In the other, olive branches (for military stasis). In his beak is a ribbon […]
True signals? Hotels multiply here; Boy Scouts’ gay rule ‘contentious’
Hampton Inn is planning a hotel with 94 rooms amid a hotel room glut in Chattanooga. Chattanooga’s economy is being misled by the day’s credit boom into building hundreds of hotel rooms in a declining market. Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites and Westin Hotel Chattanooga are bringing 728 hotel rooms on line through next year, says […]