City to criminalize begging, directs cops to do social work among poor

Landon Howard is shushed by Phil Noblett, city attorney, because critics of the panhandling rule have already had their turn to be heard and will not be heard from further. With him are protesters Beth Foster and Jeannie Hacker-Cerulean. Police chief David Roddy, center, is empowered under a proposed ordinance to arrest beggars. Worried about […]

It’s time DA Pinkston squints at TN traffic law, observes limited scope

This is the arrest photo of a man in Hamilton County charged with criminal violation of the traffic law. Under it, common people are charged as drivers and operators who do not have their papers in order, just as in fascist-racist countries such as South Africa under apartheid. (Chattanoogan.com) Another defendant of Tennessee’s commercial statutes […]

City urged restrain cops, obey TN traffic law, avoid abusing minorities

The Chattanooga News Chronicle, a progressive voice for African-Americans, is open to hearing more about my efforts to give notice to officials about limits on the Tennessee traffic law. (Photo David Tulis) A chronic abuse by Tennessee’s white establishment against minorities is the enforcement of traffic laws against people who are not subject to those […]

City slow to enforce misshapen Airbnb ban

City government’s appointee for economic development has been tasked with blockading economic development on the Internet. (Photo LinkedIn) It may be good that Chattanooga city government is bureaucratically slow in getting into gear its surveillance of the short-term vacation rental market. Donna Williams of the mayor’s economic and community development office has the unfortunate duty […]

Chattanooga — sanctuary city right wing would love (under administrative notice)

David Tulis of 92.7 NoogaRadio gives a 4-minute followup chat with members of Chattanooga city council to tell more about his transportation administrative notice that notifies the city of limits to Tennessee law as touching the use of cars, trucks and motorbikes on the public right of way. He says by curbing cops’ illicit use […]

Hammond mulls 7 questions on travel right, transportation privilege

Truck driver Benjamin Brewer, who kills six people in a 2015 Chattanooga crash, is sentenced under state and federal law for being an operator of a motor vehicle who violated the rules for commercial use of highways. Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond is mulling questions i sent him March 8 following a March 1 interview […]

Model for liberty, confidence, openness: Old Israel with no border wall

In what ways could city government in Chattanooga encourage the concept of sanctuary, where people fleeing evil elsewhere will be protected here? (Photo David Tulis) Welcome to Episode 43 of Axe to the Root Podcast, part of the War Room Productions, I am Bo Marinov, and for the next 20 minutes I will be getting […]

City claims authority to regulate vehicles for hire

A bus subject to city regulation passes in front of the Realto theater in 1935. The city charter gives the corporation power to tax for-profit vehicles for hire — and boldly claims the power to impose a tax on private “pleasure” cars. (Photo Chattanooga History Center, Picnooga) Transportation administrative notice is supported from an another […]

Notice to Hammond: Reform required even though Haslam, judges, legislators opposed

Sheriff Jim Hammond talks with Greg Luther, left, at a 2014 political event. Mr. Luther is defending the right of citizenry to photograph department officers in any public place. (Photo David Tulis) The following is a letter sent to Jim Hammond, sheriff of Hamilton County, Tenn., regarding an interview about the laws he is charged […]

Dayton mayor Louallen debates journalist on limits of police authority

David Tulis gives a transportation administrative notice Feb. 23, 2018, to Gary Louallen, mayor of Dayton, Tenn., a town in which a few people use the public roadway without state permit but face arrest or citation is stopped. (Photo Facebook) Dayton is the seat of Rhea County, Tenn., where a courthouse stands as a tourist […]