Crockett’s sweeping proposals include high-speed rail, green theory

Mayor candidate Dave Crockett says regional thinking is holistic and more realistic than that derived from maps and legal/political borders. He takes credit for many of the improvements that the city gave to itself in the 1990s and promises to be an activist lococentric mayor. (Noogaradio 1240 AM 101.1 FM) Tweet Pin It

Berke bows needlessly to rule, adds housing woes, Long says

Chris Long is an independent candidate for mayor of Chattanooga and says a free market perspective will ease some of the burdens of commercial government as overseen by Democrat lawyer Andy Berke, the incumbent. Our interviews focus on policing and housing. David Tulis presses Mr. Long to see if his ideas let the free market […]

City flings legal net to control house; Gaddys fight for constitutional rights

A logging truck passes in front of the law offices of city attorney Stephen Greer in Dunlap, Tenn. (Photo David Tulis) Dunlap mayor Dwain Land, a big gun lover with several rifles behind him in a glass case, signed the initial sworn civil complaint against the Gaddy family in February 2015. (Photo David Tulis) An […]

Hixson water utility injects risky chemical to save parents trip to Walgreens

Staffers at Hixson Utility District raise the federal flag just before the group’s board meeting Friday in which it insisted on keeping up fluoride injections in drinking water supplies as a token of its goodwill to the drinking, bathing, cooking and gardening public. (Photo David Tulis) The refusal of the Hixson Utility District to abolish […]

Hixson Utility District board persists in mass medical treatment by water

Rebecca Hunter of the Hixson Utility District, Gov. Bill Haslam’s personnel director, impatiently listens to clean-water petitioners as she goes into the office for a bottle of water. She and other board member reject calls to end the injection of a government-approved industrial waste into water used for drinking, bathing, cooking and gardening. (Photo David […]

Dunlap mayor says sad over Gaddy ‘inspection’ fight

Dwain Land signed the initial complaint in the Gaddy case in Dunlap, Tenn., where the city is demanding a search without taking the trouble of drafting an affidavit of probable cause. (Photo David Tulis) The mayor of Dunlap says he regrets the escalating conflict over property rights in his southeast Tennessee town. “I hate anything […]

Patriots at Dayton dinner hail Trump, assert blessings of constitution

Though they love the U.S. Bill of Rights, men and women rise and salute the federal banner as if it still represents their interests in lawful government. (Photo David Tulis) Homeschooled teenager Jake Griffin, 15, and Jillian Edmonds, 16, listen to Jake’s grandmother, June Griffin, address the Bill of Rights dinner in Dayton, Tenn. (Photo […]

Hammond defends probe into East Ridge police execution of plumber

Sheriff Jim Hammond, the most powerful man in Hamilton County, Tenn, says his deputies are trained to de-escalate tense encounters that otherwise might end in a police shoot-down of a citizen. (Photo David Tulis) Sheriff Jim Hammond defends his investigation into the slaying of Todd Browning, East Ridge plumber armed with a metal rod whom […]

DA Pinkston, state excuse police execution of East Ridge resident

East Ridge employee Daniel Stephenson executes plumber Todd Browning in front of his house in East Ridge, Tenn. (Photo YouTube) Chattanoogans have had two reminders in the past nine days that the state is superior to them and that its violent acts against citizens are to be overlooked in light of its pretense of noble […]