Intern would learn news trade, boost this site, radio platform
Mike Steel, left, and Russell Stroud of Noogaradio assemble an FM radio antenna in the station’s Hixson studio. (Photo David Tulis) Russell Stroud is the news director of Noogaradio and is a story of how an intern becomes a partner. Mr. Stroud, 21, of Ringgold, Ga., has never set foot in a classroom, having been […]
CVB’s threats to silence Boyd lack legal basis
Chattanooga is pitched as a tourist destination by a group that gets F$7.1 million from Hamilton County taxpayers. (Photo Chattanoogafun.com) A local nonprofit group that relies on tax money for most of its budget is threatening County Commissioner Tim Boyd, who is walking on tiptoes while discussing the group’s big spending. He should rather walk […]
‘Chattanooga goes rogue, finds local food, independence’
Sara McIntyre argues that local food is essential for personal, civic virtue, and promotes Crabtree Farms’ upcoming plant sale and festival. With David Tulis. (Courtesy Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It
WUTC, a cash-needy state client, fires reporter Helbert in fit of servility
Jacqui Helbert tells about her being fired by the NPR affiliate in Chattanooga. (File photo WUTC) David Tulis and Jacqui Helbert explain what happened in her firing by UTC and WUTC, a government radio station. The firing of reporter Jacqui Helbert at WTC is a picture of how a power-based market works in contrast to […]
Jets stripe city skies 9 days of past 15; lungs, gardens, health at risk?
This morning scene from my house in Soddy-Daisy is breathtaking, showing how dust deposits spread into cloud cover. The U.S. war against sunlight continues under Mr. Trump, evidently because it serves a goal higher than public health under the U.S. clean air act. (Photo David Tulis) In a view typical of sky stripe mornings, jets […]
TN highwayman program targeted by reform bill invites local corruption
Seized cars and trucks are part of Tennessee’s highwayman program, also known as civil asset forfeiture. (Photo Tennessee Watchdog) This week a committee in the general assembly is considering the civil asset forfeiture reform bill proposed by Sen. Todd Gardenhire and a state representative. The bill would reduce the incentive of police departments and sheriff’s […]
Godly civil order, self-governing people will create radically decentralized SE Tennessee
Decentralization and its origins in biblical thinking and American colonial history. In two parts. Thank you. Please like Noogaradio on Facebook. Tweet Pin It
Christianity envisions radical political, economic decentralization
If God blesses the trend toward radical decentralization, Chattanooga city hall will become increasingly important, Nashville and Washington, D.C., less. (Photo David Tulis) The basic premise of localism—and therefore, the basic premise of what I call “County Rights”—is that civil government power should be as decentralized as possible. This is the heart of the program. […]
Pietism makes God small; who would worship an impotent, reactive deity?
Who would worship a small God? Many Christians in Chattanooga are given no other option at church, as Christianity is merely a privatized system of belief, not a nation-building system of thought and practice. (Courtesy Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It
Does church favoring privatized Christianity get its key essential wrong, too?
The Tennessee supreme court in Nashville is the judicial wing of state government. Neither it nor the federal supreme court “make” law, but the Obergefell gay opinion pretends to have leveled state laws on marriage. Does the gospel speak about limits on state authority? Without reformation, Chattanooga should not expect a better local economy and […]