For 25 years, no abortion clinic has ‘served’ Chattanooga
An abortion truth truck tells the story of abortion in the U.S., a practice that hasn’t been publicly a part of life in Chattanooga for the past 25 years. But 9,732 babies were slaughtered in Tennessee in 2016, at least 355 of them from mothers residing in Hamilton County. (Photo Fletcher Armstrong blog) Twenty-five years […]
Paying penny a day, people yield rights, avoid the accuser
Coal and nuclear utility TVA runs a police army that enforces traffic laws against private users of the roads, and claims jurisdiction to enforce transportation statutes anywhere in the state at any time. (Photo TVA) My correspondent Levi is a working man in middle Tennessee. A self-made legal scholar, Levi often sends me trenchant analyses […]
City claims authority to regulate vehicles for hire
A bus subject to city regulation passes in front of the Realto theater in 1935. The city charter gives the corporation power to tax for-profit vehicles for hire — and boldly claims the power to impose a tax on private “pleasure” cars. (Photo Chattanooga History Center, Picnooga) Transportation administrative notice is supported from an another […]
How Berke could win all sides by restraining cops, ordering ’open’ city
Mayor Andy Berke speaks with members of the audience at a campaign debate at UTC in 2017. (Photo David Tulis) I realize it will take a while for the policy and political implications of transportation administrative notice to take effect. For busy men such as Mayor Andy Berke and city attorney Wade Hinton, it will […]
Jets scar morning sky over Chattanooga; but program halved
A car leaves the Waffle House at the bottom of the hill on Highway 153 in Hixson, its driver no doubt dazzled by the demonstration of aerial prowess of a civil authority that runs a military weather program wreathed in secrecy. (Photo David Tulis) Negative emissions by jet aircraft are part of the federal government’s […]
BearCats, other war gear to flow again to area cops
Chattanooga police in 2010 obtained a six-ton F$1.1 million Lenco armored car that can carry 12 SWAT team members on cushioned seats enroute to serve a warrant for TennCare fraud or other threatening activity. The vehicle was paid for entirely by Uncle Sam. (Photo Lencoarmor.com) “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like […]
10 forms of slavery blacks endure today (largely without realizing it)
This monument to a Confederate general, A.P. Stewart, should offend less than the requirement of the party represented in the building behind, one that says black people cannot marry without state permission. (Photo MP on Flickr) Black activists and Democrat-oriented sympathizers have it easy. They complain bitterly about statues of Confederate notables such as Gen. […]
Soddy-Daisy roadblock hits 2 nights over holiday
This video shows one of the escape routes for a roadblock tonight and Saturday near the Regions bank in Soddy-Daisy. (Photo David Tulis) Update. The city will run its roadblock tonight under the Highway 27 overpass in rainy weather 10 p.m. to midnight. DT Our earlier story: Soddy Daisy will be running police roadblocks tonight […]
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 […]
Trailer park landlord seeks re-election as mayor while hounding Gaddys from home
“I’ve never had any occasion to get upset with Dwain Land at all,” says trailer park renter Renee Luper, an invalid in Dunlap, Tenn. With her is son, Michael. (Photo David Tulis) A row of rusty mailboxes line Land Drive next to a Dunlap, Tenn., trailer park owned by Mayor Dwain Land, one serving budget-conscious town […]