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Necessity of police reform as cop killings, public anger escalate

Chattanooga police chief Fred Fletcher, left, and his boss, Mayor Andy Berke. Policing is a function of municipal corporation’s executive branch, with little oversight from the city’s legislative branch, the city council. (Photo abcnews-go.com) The mayor Andy Berke administration released results of a survey that will help its chief of police selection committee focus on […]

Optimistic analysis of coming Chattanooga city-state (post crash)

Brandon and Neisha Brophy welcome girl preemie triplets into the world in January 2016. Procreation is a sign of optimism and a picture of human an investment in the future. David Tulis and Sam Spade at Noogaradio debate why Chattanoogans should be optimistic for the future. (Photo Ronald McDonald House blog) Chattanooga faces a coming […]

Christian rebuilding toward justice: Private courts, God’s law

State justice occurs in the old Hamilton County courthouse, left, with the county jail, right. Christian rebuilding of equity and justice will create a parallel private system in which God’s law will be the supreme law. (Photo David Tulis) What can be done to return society to a biblical, free judicial system? In this section […]

Schools’ fears of sex predators deepen isolationism in proposed Airbnb ban

The fear of out-of-town visitors is threatening a measure before Chattanooga city council that would ban Airbnb families from turning empty houses into havens for travelers. The proposed ban plays on fears that students like these at Girls Preparatory Schools are vulnerable to sexual abuse from neighbors if those neighbors let their houses through Airbnb. […]

‘Half the time they don’t bring’ TN inmate medications

By Sharon Rondeau / Postandemail.com A letter received May 22 from an inmate at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in Hartsville, Tenn., reinforces numerous reports received over the last year detailing very limited visitation, cold meals served at irregular times, long-term lockdown periods when inmates are confined to their cells for up to 23 hours each […]

City weighs ‘fright’ factor in use of unmarked cop cars to stop women in traffic

Chief Fred Fletcher says the mother of a boy shot by gangland misdoings suffered “fear and horror.” But do city police traffic stops in private cars create such fright among innocent users of the public roadways? The story develops. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) A public statement given by Chief Fred Fletcher in the case of the shooting […]

Airbnb plan voids 3 citizen protections, turds ‘Gig’ open economy spirit

Dark clouds of regulation hang over property rights among Chattanoogans. (Photo Sandy Battles Keller Williams Realty) On Tuesday Chattanooga city council seems ready to vote for a plan that defeats the optimism and forward-thinking in the Gig City concept in the city for the past decade. Council members seem not to disfavor a plan pretends […]

Favors open to decentralized solution to 5 broken schools

YOUR LOCOCENTRISM IS SHOWING — State Rep. JoAnne Favors analyzes a proposed state takeover of five “failing” Chattanooga-area state schools, objecting to a top-down alliance that puts a Massachussetts organization in the driver’s seat. Mrs. Favors, a Democrat, is open to nontraditional solutions if they can be brought to bear by LOCAL people, despite a […]