‘Where learning happens alongside family life’ — city educational newsletter goes digital
Several homeschool families gather in a field in Bakewell, Tenn., near Soddy-Daisy, to watch the eclipse Aug. 21, the “totality” of which cut a line on the map between Chattanooga and Soddy-Daisy. Two of the families are local, but one came as a lark from Maryland to see firsthand the mysterious intersection of planetary bodies. […]
50% tax cut would spur sharp improvements in county schools
This graphic from the 2016 CAFR shows where the county’s money comes from. It is possible to empathize with Hamilton County Commissioners who are being asked to consider a tax increase of F$100 million to pay for the state factory school system in the Chattanooga area. The reason one might sympathize with board members is […]
Roddy’s 1st temptation: Re-militarization of police under Trump
The group Concerned Citizens for Justice expressed alarm over police militarization prior to the naming of David Roddy as Chattanooga police chief. (Photo Concerned Citizens for Justice) The seeming commitment of the Andy Berke administration toward police reform comes under a temptation days after city council voted to approve the nomination of David Roddy as […]
10 forms of slavery blacks endure today (largely without realizing it)
This monument to a Confederate general, A.P. Stewart, should offend less than the requirement of the party represented in the building behind, one that says black people cannot marry without state permission. (Photo MP on Flickr) Black activists and Democrat-oriented sympathizers have it easy. They complain bitterly about statues of Confederate notables such as Gen. […]
Berke’s press ban: ‘No matter what he says, he’s not media’
Andy Berke names David Roddy chief of police Aug. 4, 2017, before a group of local media whose members are unlikely to ask questions about the trouble police officers have in obeying state law and caring about citizens’ God-given and constitutionally guaranteed rights. A ban by the mayor’s office of a blogger suggests that the Chattanooga […]
Bullet points on the leftist rally in Chattanooga
Critics of swastikas and National Socialist theories from 1940s Germany await the beginning of a left-wing rally in Chattanooga on Aug. 17, 2017. (Photo David Tulis) The leftwing rally in Chattanooga exhibited some of the best and worst of progressivism. The bad: its harsh demeanor against dissent, its fruity sexual mores and its fractured analysis of […]
Local organic fare costs more, & why it’s worth it
Becky Ensinger milks a goat in Dayton, Tenn. She makes goats milk soap that sells online at Dixie Does Alpines. (Photo David Tulis) DAYTON, Tenn. — I’ve been mulling over the question over why Wal-Mart milk prices and quality raised by the caller to your show while I was a guest. I think he had […]
Blacks in Chattanooga oppressed 10x
Hanson Melvin waits in the Hamilton County criminal court clerk’s office for a copy of his indictment. He had been kidnapped by a Chattanooga police officer, lied about and harassed by a gang of police officers after he’d made bail in May 2016. (Photo David Tulis) Tweet Pin It
Anthony exposes how HUD uses cash to seize control in localities
John Anthony of Ooltewah, Tenn., runs Sustainable Freedom Lab to defend property rights against invasive species. (Photo YouTube) WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 7, 2017) Today I will present a series of lectures at the 2017 Washington DC “American Dream Conference” giving you a rare peek inside the world of HUD, one of our nation’s most controversial bureaucracies. We […]
McCallie’s choice words to new police chief
Franklin McCallie, a secular prophet and social reform activist, tells how he shifted from racial bigotry to amity and what Chattanooga’s new chief of police should say and do to reduce the abuse of policing against blacks and the poor. (Courtesy Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It