The value of your own people and local economy in a personal crisis

You have agonized over your plan for an abortion, half horrified at yourself, and half proud that you are bold enough to consider such a difficult step to exit your dilemma. You are pregnant, not married; the baby’s father doesn’t want to marry you, and you are not sure you would want to marry him, […]

As U.S. falters, paper can prosper by refocusing on local economy

My sketch sees Times Free Press staffers under a deadening bubble, where all their professional lives are directed to two main products (paper, website). I propose that their servitude under employment not exclude other writing, that they be given liberty to be productive on their own websites as collaborators or clients of the company. By […]

Why the Internet won’t make my local newspaper go extinct

In the cool honeysuckle-laced air of the morning, a Times Free Press awaits its subscriber to retrieve it. By David Tulis The crisis in the newspaper industry in recent years, particularly since the economic meltdown in September 2008, should prompt people who love their hometown paper to look into underlying realities they perhaps have not […]

ISP defies government-backed players, seeks to serve small outfits

EPB trucks install fiber-optic cable in the Chattanooga area as the government utility installs a taxpayer-subsidized high-speed Internet system for which little demand is expected. Government is thinking always of the consumer. How can our services be expanded to benefit members of the public? Is there any dysfunction in the marketplace that we can step […]

Small businesses create favorable context for rosy health

Kathryn Foster, overseer of the city’s business incubator, visits Ann Dickerson and her husband, Bill Zack, of Chattanooga Cookie. Despotism, which is of a very timorous nature, is never more secure of continuance than when it can keep men asunder. *** [A] despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not […]

Right use of good works in local economy

East Ridge resident Larry Setliffe, a former homeless man who graduated from the Bible study program at Union Gospel Mission (two buildings in background) has grown in grace as a result of Christian works of charity and friendship. One tenet of local economy is private capital and private action. This notion is surly, demanding and […]