High comments given to Tulis for deep-reaching reporting, analysis

David Tulis, a lococentric journalist with an eye for Chattanooga, is depicted here as a cosmopolite with a global perspective. According to my colleague, Mike Steel, you are wise to support this website and to advertise your business, church or group on our multimedia platform, Noogaradio 1240 AM 101.1 FM. Please donate to support our […]

Obedience to God’s law would reshape courts, society, economy of city

If Christians work for several generations to live and love in terms of God’s law, city culture, mores, laws and systems would be transformed for man’s benefit and God’s glory. (Photo David Tulis) Christendom is the idea of God’s propriety in the affairs of man — and man’s widespread recognition of His lawful and loving […]

Lawyers in bus crash lawsuits yield open secret about a lost liberty

Bus companies such as Durham School Services earn a profit from transporting people or goods for hire on the people’s roads, and so are called “common carriers” subject to regulation. (Photo secure.burlesonisd.net) A secret is being revealed by lawyers filing lawsuits on behalf of victims of the yellow school bus crash in Chattanooga that killed […]

Homeschooled gal youngest ever to graduate from UT nursing school

Jacqueline Gaddis, right, with her older sister, Madeleine, both nursing students graduating together at UT’s college of nursing. Jacqueline Gaddis is getting a head start on her nursing career. Gaddis — who will receive her degree on Friday from the College of Nursing — is the youngest graduate that college officials can remember. She is […]

Chattanooga 2.0 school scheme’s missing ingredient

Conflicting economic presuppositions between state school activists written up in the Times Free Press and free market and voluntaryist analysis by contrarian Charles Hugh Smith. (Photo David Tulis) Jared Bigham explains the goals of the group Chattanooga 2.0. (Photo Chatt2.org) The Sunday editions of the Chattanooga Times Free Press tell of a winning goal: “Smartest […]

Expo your 1-stop shop to boost learning, aid family

Families in home education and the world of schooling profit from the annual home education expo and curriculum fair. (Photo Ginger Sumerlin) Exhibitors from around the United States are gathering in East Ridge this weekend to supply a growing need for educational resources among families in the region. Nearly 80 providers ranging from booksellers, universities […]

Homeschool expo says yes to personal relationships, no to ‘machine’

Exhibitors and students talk up pedagogy at the home education expo and curriculum fair that takes place this year at Camp Jordan in East Ridge, Tenn., July 15 and 16. (Photos Faith Hamilton and Ginger Sumerlin) A tot enjoys an educational gizmo at the annual home education fair serving the free market. Moms gather at […]

TN school systems use taxpayer money for lobbying

The Tennessee Organization for School Superintendents shells out $10,000 to $25,000 in taxpayer money for five lobbyists. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) Certain public school systems in Tennessee are using taxpayer money to hire lobbyists who push items those same taxpayers may not like, state records show. Justin Owen, president of the Nashville-based Beacon Center of Tennessee, a […]

Haslam should deal more forcefully with Obama over restroom decree

Gov. Bill Haslam Today the Governor sent an email to various persons about the Obama administration’s “guidance letter” relative to privacy in intimate public settings like school bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, and dorm rooms. We appreciate the fact that the Governor has now addressed the issue. Here is what he said: “The White House itself […]

Care for seasoned citizen teaches sons commitment to family

Life Care Center of Hixson therapists Priscilla Clemons and Sarah Burkhart train Marianne Tulis how to slip from wheelchair to auto seat. (Photos David Tulis) Last of four home educated children still getting lessons, Jacob Tulis, 13, will learn grace in helping parents tend an infirm grandmother. An important benefit of homeschooling is that it […]