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Hamilton utility board should vote to halt fluoridation of water

By David Tulis The proposal to end the pouring fluoride into the district’s water supply is wise for two reasons — cost and public health. For one, liquid hydrofluorosilicic acid costs about $8,000 a year but imposes up to $12,000 a year corrosion damage to pipes and valves. This is worrisome. If it corrodes metal, […]

TN outlaws 14,223 drivers in town as court demands payment

This woman and thousands of others in a military town in Tennessee have their driver licenses revoked for debts owed to a court in Clarksville. The Leaf-Chronicle newspaper reports the details. State government revoked the driver licenses of 14,223 people in a hapless Tennessee county whose traffic court sent notice to Nashville of uncollected fines. […]

Easy credit fuels retail boom, sacks God’s rule for money

Evidence of the credit boom in northern Chattanooga along Highway153: A retail development still seeking tenants. (Photo David Tulis) Scott Hale of Dayton, busily talking on the phone, is developer of two neighboring retail complexes in Hixson, one containing an Advance Auto set to open month’s end. (Photo David Tulis) A steel structural shell rises […]

Gardenhire kills ‘constitutional carry’ by ‘blowing smoke,’ Harris says

Sen. Todd Gardenhire takes the GOP establishment’s position against the right to bear arms. (Photo Nashvillepublicradio.org) On March 8, 2016, Sen. Todd Gardenhire helped kill so-called constitutional carry in Tennessee in a Senate judiciary committee vote. Or nonvote. Sen. Gardenhire declined to say yay or nay on the proposal that would have allowed all law-abiding […]

2 prosecutors, trooper don’t have ‘absolute immunity,’ suit says

A free user of the public roads convicted under the state’s vague “intent to go armed” and its commercial motor vehicle license statute is fighting Nashville’s efforts to disentangle two prosecutors and a highway patrol deputy from litigation. Arthur Jay Hirsch sued district attorney Kim Helper, Tammy Rettig and trooper Jeff Reed operating in Middle Tennessee […]