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 […]

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 […]

Basis of rebuilding local economy: Local agriculture

Franklin Sanders of Highpoint, Tenn., calls for the power of local economy to fill the gaps that will be left in the progressive collapse of national government and a souring national economy. 47 minutes. Tweet Pin It

Special interests will resist efforts to end police militarization

The 9-minute history of police militarization features Professor Abby Hall of the University of Tampa. What has led to the use of military-grade weapons and tactics among American police forces? What financial and political interests will resist a bid to demilitarize local police and sheriff’s departments? Tweet Pin It

Tennesseee militia figure warns Bundy standoff ripe for manipulation

This book suggests ways in which to survive if social order breaks down and citizens are required to prosper without the perks of commercial government. By David Tulis A Tennessee free militia activist says the Bundy family seizure of a federal park facility in burns, Ore., is dangerous and liable to be turned to the […]

Wealth-building ideas counter state-induced dependency

Planners in Hamilton County use a democratic gloss to wiggle forward with their ideas about cities and their residents. By John Anthony In spite of President Obama’s slick candor and a sympathetic media, the devices he uses to create his centrally “governed” society are vulnerable. Like an underdeveloped nation torn between wealthy landowners and the […]

Worried about terror risk this holiday? Shop at small businesses

St. John’s is a little restaurant downtown Chattanooga owned by Josh Carter. Local economy eateries and shops are less likely to draw the interest of a national brand-conscious terrorist. (Photo St. John’s Restaurant) By Duke Cumbelich There are so many reasons to shop at your local small businesses. You are helping your fellow neighbors by supporting […]

The destructive influence of pietism in American society

First Baptist church in Chattanooga has a program that helps the homeless and offers an open house every Thursday providing a free meal and Christian teaching. (Photo First Baptist Church Chattanooga) [The system of thought within Christianity that makes God’s people unwilling to interact with culture, law, politics, the arts, science and media is pietism. […]