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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 […]

Judge hopeful Little explains deep law, insists justice possible

Defense attorney Mike Little answers tough questions about criminal court, whether it can be just, why so many defendants are poor people and are there any “outs” in the ethics rules that let judges do whatever they want outside of justice. (AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It