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Radio platform gives unparalleled coverage in Chattanooga

Young women from American Heritage Girls and boys from a Trail Life USA chapter open a ceremony in Chattanooga. (Photo David Tulis) Lococentric independent free market media is vital to bringing benefit and reform to people like you, my listener and my reader here in Southeast Tennessee. In the past year the Nooganomics and Noogaradio […]

Carefully executed Soddy-Daisy roadblocks nab no DUIs

Jeff Gann, acting chief of Soddy Daisy police, holds a hot pizza given his crew by a passing member of the public at a New Year’s Eve roadblock. (Photo David Tulis) The Soddy-Daisy police department runs a roadblock in full compliance with judicial rules requiring high visibility by use of signs, cones and lights. (Photo […]

Crockett’s sweeping proposals include high-speed rail, green theory

Mayor candidate Dave Crockett says regional thinking is holistic and more realistic than that derived from maps and legal/political borders. He takes credit for many of the improvements that the city gave to itself in the 1990s and promises to be an activist lococentric mayor. (Noogaradio 1240 AM 101.1 FM) Tweet Pin It

Berke bows needlessly to rule, adds housing woes, Long says

Chris Long is an independent candidate for mayor of Chattanooga and says a free market perspective will ease some of the burdens of commercial government as overseen by Democrat lawyer Andy Berke, the incumbent. Our interviews focus on policing and housing. David Tulis presses Mr. Long to see if his ideas let the free market […]

Melvin relates story of police abuse, courage in standing up for rights

Hanson Melvin relates his story of courageous defiance against an oppressive legal system, starting with officer David Campbell of the Chattanooga police department who in May arrested him, wrote a fictional narrative of why, perjured himself (twice) in official venues, kidnapped and jailed him, and harassed him with other cops 10 minutes after Mr. Hanson […]

Long backs idea of free trade zone in housing

Architectural consultant Chris Long, running for mayor of Chattanooga, says regulatory costs are stifling the housing market in the city. He tells why David Tulis’ argument for a free trade zone in housing — to help the homeless — is an idea that might work. (Photo Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It

Victim of rogue officer asks expungement in botched city case

Hanson Melvin waits in the front lobby of the Hamilton County district attorney’s office prior to an interview with Neal Pinkston regarding perjured statements by an officer leading to his indictment. (Photo David Tulis) The Hixson man who was arrested and indicted for walking in his apartment complex and refusing to state his social security […]

Insurance, state work quietly to make roads more dangerous

John Ballinger stands next to a bit of open roadway. (Photo David Tulis) [He may be just a carpenter, but the Gnome of Strawberry Plains is one whose insights I always consider carefully as he is a miracle worker just like those commoners during “the money wars” in the 1980s who challenged the federal establishment […]