Grohn wants more cops, jobs training, ‘affordable’ housing
Larry Grohn, a city council member, is running for mayor of Chattanooga. Voting is in March. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis / Chattanoogan.com Larry Grohn is ramping up his campaign for mayor and searching for ways to rise above the particulars of being a legislator on the city council to a winnable theory about […]
Housing ‘free trade zone’ gives homeless a chance to settle
Mayor candidate Larry Grohn proposes trade school revival but rejects free market concept to benefit homeless. I propose the benefits of blight, because a “town” created by homeless people using castoff recycled building materials may look pretty bad to high-minded people like us. But we should get out of their way and not let our […]
Law doesn’t rule in ‘rule of law’; source behind it does
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann of Chattanooga gives an interview on election night. (Photo David Tulis) Another new year, another year of thousands of so-called new laws? Is it because of what you hear almost daily, We live by the rule of law and not by the rule of man? I believe just the opposite is […]
Crockett & the coming U.S. devolution
Dave Crockett, mayoral candidate, is a backer of the idea of the citystate, which envisions a shift in government away from the standard local-state-federal rubric to a more organic and geocentric theory. Here I explore Mr. Crockett’s connection with people in this line of thinking. Also, a chat with Carol Gaddy, the feisty Dunlap, Tenn., […]
Berke bows needlessly to rule, adds housing woes, Long says
Chris Long is an independent candidate for mayor of Chattanooga and says a free market perspective will ease some of the burdens of commercial government as overseen by Democrat lawyer Andy Berke, the incumbent. Our interviews focus on policing and housing. David Tulis presses Mr. Long to see if his ideas let the free market […]
Long backs idea of free trade zone in housing
Architectural consultant Chris Long, running for mayor of Chattanooga, says regulatory costs are stifling the housing market in the city. He tells why David Tulis’ argument for a free trade zone in housing — to help the homeless — is an idea that might work. (Photo Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It
Insurance, state work quietly to make roads more dangerous
John Ballinger stands next to a bit of open roadway. (Photo David Tulis) [He may be just a carpenter, but the Gnome of Strawberry Plains is one whose insights I always consider carefully as he is a miracle worker just like those commoners during “the money wars” in the 1980s who challenged the federal establishment […]
Crockett says would be activist, lococentric mayor
Mayor candidate Dave Crockett develops some of his unusual ideas in an interview with David Tulis on Noogaradio. Tweet Pin It
Dunlap’s 2-year seizure case vs. Gaddys in wrong court
Carol Gaddy, 69, stands on side side of an historic house the Dunlap, Tenn., mayor Dwain Land says is uninhabitable and a danger to the public. It is being remodeled, and all permits required for the work were entered into a two-year lawsuit by the city against Mrs. Gaddy and her husband, Thomas. (Photo David Tulis) The […]
City flings legal net to control house; Gaddys fight for constitutional rights
A logging truck passes in front of the law offices of city attorney Stephen Greer in Dunlap, Tenn. (Photo David Tulis) Dunlap mayor Dwain Land, a big gun lover with several rifles behind him in a glass case, signed the initial sworn civil complaint against the Gaddy family in February 2015. (Photo David Tulis) An […]