Council raises digital wall around Airbnb, barring hundreds from home-based business
John Muller regrets that Glenwood is outside a district for short-term vacation rentals, an omission that will slow the growth of and investment in that area. (Photo David Tulis) This map shows areas of town that will be allowed to take part in home sharing rentals. Homeowners outside the district face enforcement action, though the […]
State wrecks family 2 years; TN judge says rickets, not beatings, caused fractures
Chris and Keshia Turner hold their sons in 2016. (Photo Turner family, Medicalkidnap.com) By Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff It was the best news ever for Chris and Keshia Turner of East Tennessee. After 2 1/2 years battling Child Protective Services, their children are home. On June 24 Keshia posted the happy news on Facebook. When Health […]
Airbnb ordinance violates ‘arbitrary, capricious’ rule in TN law
Children take part in a worship of God in a St. Nicholas school event. The school rejects a biblical defense of property rights, and instead is peddling fear of strangers and is complicit in a city council effort to defraud homeowners of their rights by regulating home-based short-term rentals. (Photo Stns.org) City council appears on […]
Sky tattoo program gets more scrutiny as dangers persist
Deposits of coal fly ash show themselves in various stages of diffusion over the skies of Hamilton County, Tenn., on June 6, 2017. Notice how particulate matter streams away from the main body of the ash deposit. (Photo David Tulis) David Tulis listens intently to J. Marvin Herndon of San Diego, a crusty nuclear geoscientist […]
City searches for police chief; local economy v. official violence
The deadline passes for applications among those who want to be considered by Mayor Andy Berke and city council for chief of police. The official culture of violence in policing, however, begs for review by concerned citizens and a clamor for a reform-minded top officer. (Courtesy Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It
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 […]