Homeschool expo puts educational choices in your hand

A homeschool curriculum fair goer sneaks in private reading from a vendor’s table at the homeschool expo at Camp Jordan. Members of the CSTHEA yearbook staff look over the latest production at the homeschool expo, held this yearJuly 20 and 21, a Friday and Saturday. Hundreds of families attend the homeschool expo, an annual event […]

City’s poor get relief, cops avoid liability suits — fruits of administrative notice

East Ridge, Tenn., having been notified about limits of the state transportation law, should act to protect its officers from litigation if they over-enforce Tenn. Code Ann. Title 55, which grants police powers only over commercial users of the roads. (Photo East Ridge city government) Tennessee has a reasonable and just transportation law. But East […]

City OKs woman’s Airbnb despite plea to avoid neighborhood change

The owner of this modest house in Chattanooga, right, wins city council OK for a short-term vacation rental after a neighbor, also a landlord, objected. (Photo Google Maps) Neighborhood conflict flashes Tuesday night at city council as a petitioner seeks approval for an Airbnb while a young entrepreneurial neighbor objects to what he warns is […]

Peterson swims upstream, rejects city ban on Airbnb prosperity

Brian Peterson of Chattanooga and his wife, Laura, intend to prosper by having private guests stay on their property through the self-regulating system of Airbnb, a prosperity platform for guests and hosts alike. (Photo Brian Peterson) This house at 201 Thornton Ave. in Chattanooga is available to visitors from around the world, bringing private earnings […]

Escapees kill 2 ’drivers’; but apps help others on road turn profit

Covenant Transportation Group in Chattanooga has 1,000 team driver trucks in its tansportation fleet of 2,600 for-hire vehicles. (Photo CCJdigital.com) Driving and operating a motor vehicle are words describing a single activity subject to state regulation and police powers in the public interest. And that is getting behind the wheel of a car or truck […]

Paying penny a day, people yield rights, avoid the accuser

Coal and nuclear utility TVA runs a police army that enforces traffic laws against private users of the roads, and claims jurisdiction to enforce transportation statutes anywhere in the state at any time. (Photo TVA) My correspondent Levi is a working man in middle Tennessee. A self-made legal scholar, Levi often sends me trenchant analyses […]

Oppressed ‘Fiddle Man of Lawrenceburg’ pleads with sheriff to obey law

Jimmy Brown, center, is the second Tennessee sheriff to receive an administrative notice about the state transportation law. He oversees Lawrence County, Tenn., sheriff’s office. The first to get the notice is Sheriff Jim Hammond of Hamilton County. (Photo Lawrence County sheriff’s office) The following is a cover letter to a copy of a notice […]