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City unpacks new year’s gift for elderly couple: Jail cell

A wall surrounds a fresh-water well on the Thomas and Carol Gaddy property in Dunlap, Tenn., that is often swamped by rainwater runoff from a city-owned lot across the street. (Photo David Tulis) The prospects of relief for Thomas and Carol Gaddy shrank with the issuance of a final order in their property rights case in […]

Dunlap’s 2-year seizure case vs. Gaddys in wrong court

Carol Gaddy, 69, stands on side side of an historic house the Dunlap, Tenn., mayor Dwain Land says is uninhabitable and a danger to the public. It is being remodeled, and all permits required for the work were entered into a two-year lawsuit by the city against Mrs. Gaddy and her husband, Thomas. (Photo David Tulis) The […]

Gaddys’ strong claim in house seizure case: City lacks probable cause

The people in the house above, that of Dunlap’s city attorney Stephen Greer, are trying to “inspect or demolish” the house below, that owned by Thomas and Carol Gaddy, private property owners who are the objects of an administrative and judicial combination.  (Photos Google, David Tulis) The efforts by the city of Dunlap to “inspect” […]

City flings legal net to control house; Gaddys fight for constitutional rights

A logging truck passes in front of the law offices of city attorney Stephen Greer in Dunlap, Tenn. (Photo David Tulis) Dunlap mayor Dwain Land, a big gun lover with several rifles behind him in a glass case, signed the initial sworn civil complaint against the Gaddy family in February 2015. (Photo David Tulis) An […]

New law forces TN to justify harassment by ‘occupational licensing’

More than 100 callings and professions are claimed by the state as its property in Chattanooga, requiring practitioners to be licensed. (Photo David Tulis) “The right of individuals to pursue a chosen business or profession, free from arbitrary or excessive government interference, is a fundamental civil right.” That’s how the Right to Earn a Living […]

Hixson water utility injects risky chemical to save parents trip to Walgreens

Staffers at Hixson Utility District raise the federal flag just before the group’s board meeting Friday in which it insisted on keeping up fluoride injections in drinking water supplies as a token of its goodwill to the drinking, bathing, cooking and gardening public. (Photo David Tulis) The refusal of the Hixson Utility District to abolish […]

Hixson Utility District board persists in mass medical treatment by water

Rebecca Hunter of the Hixson Utility District, Gov. Bill Haslam’s personnel director, impatiently listens to clean-water petitioners as she goes into the office for a bottle of water. She and other board member reject calls to end the injection of a government-approved industrial waste into water used for drinking, bathing, cooking and gardening. (Photo David […]

Patriots at Dayton dinner hail Trump, assert blessings of constitution

Though they love the U.S. Bill of Rights, men and women rise and salute the federal banner as if it still represents their interests in lawful government. (Photo David Tulis) Homeschooled teenager Jake Griffin, 15, and Jillian Edmonds, 16, listen to Jake’s grandmother, June Griffin, address the Bill of Rights dinner in Dayton, Tenn. (Photo […]

Dunlap mayor says sad over Gaddy ‘inspection’ fight

Dwain Land signed the initial complaint in the Gaddy case in Dunlap, Tenn., where the city is demanding a search without taking the trouble of drafting an affidavit of probable cause. (Photo David Tulis) The mayor of Dunlap says he regrets the escalating conflict over property rights in his southeast Tennessee town. “I hate anything […]