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60 homeowners work to create property defense group amid East Ridge threat

Attorney Milad Emam talks to a group of East Ridge residents about how to organize a property-defense association to keep an eye on caring officials and their plans for the city. (Photo David Tulis) An activist attorney says the city’s redevelopment authority wields a power “that should never be used against anyone” and Wednesday urged […]

State paroles Whipple, who learns art of legal war in cell

David Tulis listens to the dad of Robert Z. Whipple, also named Robert, talk about his son’s release. The departure from the prison at Horsehead Road in Pikeville, Tenn., could take as long as two weeks. (Photo courtesy Noogaradio) Sorry I haven’t written sooner, I have been having a hectic last few days. As you […]

Teacher Spencer arrested: A glance into soul of accused, & of ‘the system’

Top photo, Raquel Eleana Spencer in 2016, from her Facebook page. And, bottom photo, from her Whitfield County arrest mugshot in a drug case that expanded into a sexual exploitation by an authority figure criminal charge. Who is Raquel Spencer, and what she is suffering? My reflections on the arrest of teacher Raquel Eleana Spencer  […]

Omerrieal Woods faces phony ‘driving’ charges in East Ridge city court; his defense?

State traffic laws put commerce under police jurisdiction, such as enforcement by Tennessee Highway Patrol, whose badge makes clear his authority over commerce. East Ridge resident Omerrieal Woods faces East Ridge city court judge Chris Helton on the charge of “driving without a license.” Mr. Woods, a VW worker on the late shift, has never […]

Prolifers in TN debate irrelevancies as tots butchered

Baby destroyed by an “abortion doctor” ends up in a trashbag, head down, foot up. (Photo LiveAction.org) Pro-life debate over a Tennessee monument bill misses point. Because Christians have not fought for abolition of baby killing, we have arguments over important topics such as this: Whether a bill for a memorial to unborn murder victims […]

Residents take a lot of abuse from government; just don’t try to boot them from houses

Residents applaud a statement made by a city council member at a raucous East Ridge city council meeting consumed with objections to an expansive “redevelopment” plan. (Photos David Tulis) Meredith Moore, 30, a renter in East Ridge who works at a Christian nonprofit organization, is scandalized at the seeming low qualifications of members of East […]