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 […]
In TN, what to pray about: 6 things the Lord hates, even 7
In happier days, Charlotte Whitaker toys with son Jaden before state government kidnapped him in 2013 and severed his parents’ rights. (Photo Medicalkidnap.com) Is the state evil? Is the state the source of peril, danger, wickedness, threat, injury and death to families in Tennessee? Is the state the source of decapitalization, loss, loss of hope, […]
A night in Soddy-Daisy city court: Lasley corrals herd of petty defendants
A murder defendant stands before Judge Mart Lasley in Soddy-Daisy city court in 2012. Most defendants appear for victimless petty offenses. (Photo VLB Productions on YouTube) The ugly spat between Brittney Parker and Roy Corder, 29, continues in a neon-lit courtroom in Soddy-Daisy, with the judge playing uncle and scold and town cops tossing in […]
Bill asks U.S. congress for marriage remedy, rejects common law solution
Rep. Mark Pody’s defense of marriage bill — stuck in a Tennessee subcommittee — continues to be the focus of pro-marriage Christians. But their ranks are divided. A pro-family critic of interposition helped kill it with talk about its potential cost in lost U.S. cash. Marriage belongs to every man and to every woman as […]
Is Causeway forgetting about bureaucracy, wasting goodwill on school system?
Co.Starters for Causes is a nine-week program that helps individuals put ideas into action, and turn a passion for bettering the community into a sustainable and thriving endeavor. (Photo Causeway.org) The Chattanooga nonprofit sector is dangling gift money before people in hopes they will help improve government schools or at least lobby for their improvement. […]
Thanks to mom, homeschooling’s social capital will aid crisis ahead
Members of a Chattanooga-area homeschooling chapter of Heritage Girls take part in a parade. (Photo Shannon Conkle) The state has supplanted neighborliness and community with bribery and entitlements, but you know your old dad, 89, is fine for now in his little house at street’s end, and your littlest daughter brings him his morning paper […]
Local vote affects city future; national vote shares in delusions
Candidates for judge such as Mike Little of Chattanooga are susceptible to the public’s interest by standing for election. Mr. Little awaits results of the day’s balloting for criminal court judge in Hamilton County, Tenn. (Photo Facebook) Soddy-Daisy voters line up to insert their ballots into a state-owned machine that tallies their preferences on Super […]
Passport Challenge event in city brings Hispanic right to travel into view
Gladys Pineda-Loher and Jim Coppinger, the mayor of Hamilton County, Tenn., promote a Latin event under the heading of “passports.” (Photo Facebook) Part of the prosperity and security of people in the home county here in Southeast Tennessee is the right of free movement. By that I mean not just the power of relocation and […]
Q&A. City’s zoning reform: fresh water but dirty pipe
Top photo, streetscapes under traditional zoning regulation end up looking like this — hostile to human life and not “people-centric,” as Mayor Andy Berke describes it. Bottom photo, a street that has been revived under form-based zoning rules is interactive and alive. (Photos Form-Based Code Institute) Traditional zoning cares mostly for the use of a […]
Mayberry’s after-school program backfills schools’ foibles
Dr. Dwight Mayberry, a retired public school superintendent from Illinois, is in Chattanooga running an after-school program bearing his name. He tutors students lagging in schools who’ve fallen behind in math and reading. (Courtesy AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It