Monsanto, big food hustle ahead with altered fare in GM health nightmare
BT cotton is proving a disaster in India, causing rashes, death in animals and thousands of farmer suicides. An excerpt from the important film, “Genetic Roulette.” Note: Chattanooga-area critics of Monsanto will conduct a rally and march against GMOs on May 25, a Saturday. The group will gather at Miller Park downtown. The destination is […]
As Times Free Press enacts paywall, Nooganomics offers more for free
The Chattanooga Times Free Press wants you and other Web readers to buy printed copies of the newspaper or pay for an online subscription in support of local economy. The Internet is destroying information monopolies and making it possible for people to be freer in their minds, to have access to a free market in […]
To travel by right, defy citation under administrative procedures act
Most people accept being drivers of motor vehicles, and so obtain licenses to use their cars. But others as a matter of free market principle refuse to ask permission to use the road and their cars, and sometimes face a little roadside excitement. By Rob Wornell The basic concept behind the idea of the super-healthy […]
‘Sustainable development’ for ’Nooga not lococentric, but globocentric
Don Casey defends genuine local economy in a Chattanooga lecture. The following is an abstract of a talk by a noted free market advocate March 16 in Chattanooga. Don Casey lectures worldwide about global agendas foisted on American states and cities under the theory of “sustainable development.” He touches our interests on several important points. […]
By joining U.S. workforce, boy, 16, allows presumptions against interest
Tonight a son asks me to look over papers he will submit to a corporate employer. The arrangement for him to make sandwiches for you and other customers brings him to a legal apex, a balancing point. If he steps ahead, submits the papers, is engaged, has his name placed on the schedule and receives […]
How localist perspective accounts for aliens, illegals in Chattanooga
King Solomon, seen here wisely settling the dispute over the prostitute’s baby, prayed that when God’s people go into an alien land as captives in punishment for sin, their masters will treat them kindly; “[G]rant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them” (1 Kings 8:50). By David […]
Judges’ trick on ‘right to travel’ defied by hard-of-hearing motorists
Tennessee courts have ruled that every use of a car is “the driving of a motor vehicle,” and that this act is subject to licensure and regulation, regardless of whether the motorist is operating in commerce. A Hixson man is challenging this claim. By David Tulis The battle of local economy is one in which […]
Possibly, if we concentrate, we can ignore ‘Union’ for sake of locale
President Barack Obama reaches to shake hands with a member of congress as he arrives to deliver the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Localism vs. the grandeur of Washington Last night when I came upstairs my wife, Jeannette, was sitting […]
Area power co-op a model for city investment club; profit paid as rebate
Technicians provide electrical service to a neighborhood. They work for Volunteer Energy Cooperative just east of Chattanooga. A co-op model used by VEC could be ideal for creating an internal market for capital in Chattanooga, with profits paid in terms of rebates, discounts or refunds. Chattanooga could create investment co-op along lines of Volunteer Energy […]
Times Free Press backing of Johnson boost for liberty, local economy
Our interest in free markets and local economy develops along two lines, one defensive and one offensive. The offensive line of thought builds up the concept of local economy, personal responsibility and an interest in the other that is a fruit of God’s grace and Christianity. It invites. It persuades. The defensive is, shall we […]