Notice project exploits fissure between law, TN policy, creates cause of action
People chat in front of Chattanooga city hall, wherein Mayor Andy Berke has been advised of the limits of Tenn. Code Ann. § Title 55 and asked to halt enforcement against noncommercial users of the roadways such as hiphop artist “C-Grimey” Cameron Williams, photo below, giving me an interview at Wildflower Cafe, a man whose […]
Cops, ATF aim guns at 6 children in wrong-house military raid near Eastgate
The six children of Tameka Parker were held at gunpoint as U.S. agents and city police demanded to search a house in a fruitless hunt for a fugitive. (Photo David Tulis) Jesse Parker is a gospel minister and public school teacher whose private house was raided without a warrant, and who was bullied into giving […]
Doctor’s 1966 warning vs. Medicare prophetic: ‘You’ll become clerk’
Dr. Curtis Caine, 96, residing at Morning Pointe of Hixson, has defied the state-owned medical establishment all of his professional career, at the start of which he refused to participate in Medicare. By Curtis W. Caine JACKSON, Miss., May 1, 1966 — Dear esteemed colleague, the time has come. You will now decide whether or […]
Judge, clerks refuse ‘client’ restricted license, offer costly path for regular one
Jennifer Collins, a clerk at city court, talks Sept. 27 with Keelah Jackson about the Chattanooga woman’s civil death sentence — a pretended ban on using a car unless she has a driver license, one she cannot afford to renew, with F$800 in fines. (Photo David Tulis) Journalist and justice advocate Keelah Jackson met with […]
Journalist-teacher fights for driver license as system gridlocks on poor
Keelah Jackson is under a civil death sentence. The state tells this city court petitioner she cannot use a car privately, but must buy a license to drive or operate a car in commerce. But she is too poor to pay court fees and fines to end a state block on her getting a driver […]
Tempers flare as new city attorney Noblett ripped on open records rebuff
Anthony Byrd, city council member in a chat after Tuesday’s meeting, says he sides with police in a noxious arrest of a girl dragged from her family’s car by a cop assisting in a repossession action by used car lot M&R Motors. (Photo David Tulis) Tempers flared at city council after 92.7 FM broadcast journalist […]
Tires, engine, steering wheel do not motor vehicle make
I stand before a family car, a RAV4, and wonder if its engine and its tires and body make it a “motor vehicle” subject to police powers. Or does the use of the car create liability for obedience to police intervention under Title 55? (Photo David Tulis) Are you traveling down the highway in a […]
Charging, tasing woman, 87, wins sissy cop honor for chief, 2 cops
Lee University grad Martha Douhne and her grandmother, Martha Al-Bashara, talk with a Newschannel9 reporter in Chatsworth, Ga. (Photo Newschannel9) Chatsworth Police Department wins my first sissy cop award for extraordinary valor in offloading 99.98 percent of personal risk onto others and tasing an old woman so that the police chief and his two subordinates […]
100 PILOT tax break deals in city to hit $400 million; is that fair?
Erskine Oglesby speaks with a member of the public after a Chattanooga city council meeting. (Photo DavidTulis) Our Jobs PILOT program has been around since about 1985. The City and County have approved about 100 PILOT agreements since that time. By Helen Burns Sharp / Accountability for Taxpayer Money About $400,000,000 in property tax revenue […]
Pastor’s letter supports parents religious exemption against vaccines
Brainerd Hills Presbyterian church is on East Brainerd Road in Chattanooga. (Photo David Tulis) Under Tennessee law, a parent who does not wish to have vaccines for a child can obtain a religious exemption. This is a signed and written statement by the parent, citing those beliefs against vaccination that are religious in nature. The […]