Fluoride corrodes plant, worries Soddy-Daisy operator

Acid from fluoride, an industrial waste put into the water to protect tooth enamel, corrodes this storage room door. (Photo David Tulis) Steve Roark is an award-winning water plant operator in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn. Fighting damage caused by the acid fluoride is a dreary part of his job. (Photo David Tulis) This room stores three fluoride […]

Strong hint from research: Chemical damages small children

This glass of water looks potable. But if contains fluoride as it does in North West Utility District north of Chattanooga, it brings ill effects upon human beings. Maria Phelps of Memphis is in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., on Saturday to gather signatures urging an end to the official pollution of water by fluoride. She and other […]

Fluoride eats away fixtures, pipes, water plant storage rooms

Fluoride is an acidic industrial waste injected into water supplies. Steve Roark explains to David Tulis of Hot News Talk Radio the damage fluoride causes to a water plant near Chattanooga. North West Utility District board members ask public input on whether they should halt fluoride treatments. David Tulis urges you to send the board […]

Melvin’s solution to police state: ‘Waive the court,’ demand indictment

Hanson Melville inks a form that “waives the court” as he asserts his constitutionally protected rights. (Photo David Tulis) By his signature, the defendant “waives” a right to a lesser court to assert his right to a greater. (Photo David Tulis) Part of the paperwork when you are absorbed into the legal machine and ground […]

Officer under perjury investigation for muddled tale of uppity black

Dragged to court by a perjurous police report on the day of the birth of his third child, Hanson Melvin of Chattanooga exits the Hamilton County courthouse in Chattanooga on June 14, 2016. (Photo David Tulis) This document is a sworn statement, aka a “police report,” that tells of a “screaming” and “yelling” family man […]

Arguments against local economy

The Main Street farmers market in Chattanooga is an expression of market decentralization — and for local economy. (Photo David Tulis) We make much of local economy in Chattanooga and are excited by arrival of digital overcapacity in the Gig, real estate on the Northshore and highly touted entrepreneurial culture exemplified by Lamp Post Group […]

Cop arrests pedestrian who refuses to show driver license; he files complaint

Hanson Melvin stands at the spot near Northgate mall where Chattanooga police waylayed him without probable cause and arrested him. (Photo David Tulis) I faced a judge in city court Tuesday on charges of disorderly conduct, but the disorderly conduct was that of Chattanooga police officers who arrested me for being a pedestrian who refused […]