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Lassitude grips city council as members do busywork, ignore Berke violence

Sharee Robinson-James, left, talks with police official Danna Vaughn about private criminal activity outside a city nightclub while, background, city council member Erskine Oglesby, left, chats with a staffer for Mayor Andy Berke. (Photo David Tulis) A great lassitude seems to afflict the residents of Chattanooga and keeps them from being angry about the abuse […]

‘Practicing the King’s Economy’ puts God’s heart into capitalism, welfare

People depart after worship at North Shore Fellowship in Chattanooga, a church where civil engagement and justice are taught as part of Christians’ mercy upon the world. Author Robby Holt is pastor. (Photo David Tulis) Pot luck beats soup kitchens as Christians develop personalistic, open and charity-oriented ideals of local economy, entrepreneuership and free market. […]

How to get into public school — without ‘required’ vaccines

Immunizations are required to get into public school, Or are they? How to get the “religious exemption” if you want a vaccine-free son or daughter and avoid grave perils from vaccination. David Tulis on the rules in Tennessee. (Courtesy 92.7 NoogaRadio) School vaccine law lets you exempt out for religious reasons Pastor’s letter supports parents […]

When ‘good people’ require a permit, look what we lose

To have a prosperous society under godly self-government and constitutional protection, we will want to pare back state licensing and permitting schemes that limit and restrain harmless and innocent noncriminal people. (Courtesy NoogaRadio 92.7) Tweet Pin It

‘Double nickel’ traffic-stop reform = change of morals for city

Churches such as North Shore Fellowship downtown teach that the Christian gospel’s goal is the transformation of individuals and cities to be more loving — and more just. (Photo David Tulis) A city that adopts a policy of obeying Tennessee law regarding transportation and police traffic stops will effectively be altering its morals. Chattanooga is […]

Able to go no further, fleeing woman in car slain after hitting cop

Officers slay American after chasing her along highway, into deadend in a Soddy-Daisy residential area surrounded by woods. Did the officer think that the Title 55 transportation stop and its fruits were to be worth the snuffing of a human life, and the serious injuries his bullet gave to the man in the next seat […]

By dismissing 3 Airbnb cases, city holds up illegal rule

This is the house at 3610 Ansel Circle in Hixson from which Amanda Cobb, a single mom, hopes to derive financial sustenance — if only Chattanooga city government would not be illegally banning her private activity. (Photo Google Maps) The city attorney’s office on Thursday let slip three civil defendants who had offended the city’s […]

Ledford pushes back against open city idea that would result from Title 55 obedience

Darrin Ledford, member of Chattanooga city council, says he wants police to treat people with respect. (Photo David Tulis) City council member Darrin Ledford pushes back against the implications of transportation administrative notice, worried that if people have liberty to travel freely, careless travelers will get away with “drunken driving” and other evils without the […]