Highway patrol rejects high court rule for roadblock public notice
By refusing to publicize its roadblocks, Red Bank, Tenn., joins the state department of safety in violating a roadblock rule laid down in two high court opinions. (Photo city of Red Bank website) Tim Christol, police chief of Red Bank, Tenn., refuses to reveal when and where his department is imposing roadblocks this Labor Day […]
Highway patrol insists vague roadblock PR obeys public notice rule
By refusing to publicize its roadblocks, Red Bank, Tenn., joins the state department of safety in violating a roadblock rule laid down in two high court opinions. (Photo city of Red Bank website) Tim Christol, police chief of Red Bank, Tenn., refuses to reveal when and where his department is imposing roadblocks this Labor Day […]
Highway patrol, Red Bank reject public notice rule for roadblocks
If you avoided Highway 41 in Chattanooga along Raccoon Mountain on Friday, you avoided the only Labor Day roadblock in the Chattanooga area. But avoid Red Bank, as it refuses to reveal whether it plans roadblocks this long weekend. Public notice of roadblocks is essential, according to the two key Tennessee high court rulings on […]
City’s best ad, ‘Angry Man,’ touts Shooter’s Supply
A customer looks at a rifle at Shooter’s Supply in north Chattanooga. (Photo YouTube) One of my tasks as observer and booster of local economy and free markets is encouraging people to shop local. Inherent in the idea of local economy is self-government under God and constitutional government, which further implies the armed citizen. By […]
Grohn says as mayor would be accessible, hold cops to account
Larry Grohn is a political conservative, a Christian active in Chattanooga tea party events. He is running for mayor. (Photo David Tulis) A conservative member of Chattanooga city council is running for mayor in a field whose contestants are not yet known. Larry Grohn is an evangelical Christian and has been active in local tea […]
Top police brass weighing probe in Melvin false arrest caseMelvin false arrest
Lights flashing, Chattanooga police officers prepare to hop out of their cruiser to enforce a law. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) The legwork in the investigation of Chattanooga policeman David Campbell is complete, apparently without interviews of witnesses who saw him arrest Hanson Melvin on May 29 at his Hixson apartment complex. “It’s still in investigation,” Lt. Pedro […]
Top police brass weigh results of Melvin false arrest probe
Lights flashing, Chattanooga police officers prepare to hop out of their cruiser to enforce a law. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) The legwork in the investigation of Chattanooga policeman David Campbell is complete, apparently without interviews of witnesses who saw him arrest Hanson Melvin on May 29 at his Hixson apartment complex. “It’s still in investigation,” Lt. Pedro […]
Like horizontal ‘smoke stacks,’ jets streak city’s sky, lay new smog
Jet emissions crisscross over my house, a new thin white beam seeming to intersect with another that’s becoming a cloud. (Photo David Tulis) From white turds to new clouds, jet emissions over Chattanooga on this second of three straight days are marked by frequent interruptions in the spray pattern. As seen from a Soddy-Daisy credit […]
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Man refuses to bow; judge, prosecutor toss busted case
Hanson Melvin is in a cheerful mood outside the Hamilton County courts building in Chattanooga after having his case dismissed. (Photo David Tulis) A black pedestrian was cleared today of criminal charges that he caused a public disturbance when he stood his ground against police demands he produce a driver license and tell his social […]