Bill would limit U.S. smog-producing program in skies of Rhode Island
Chattanooga receives a treatment of jet-deposited aerosols Feb. 18, 2016. (Photo Blacky Darr) Knoxville is crisscrossed with jet plumes of a nighttime, Jan. 24, 2016. I have seen over the skies of Soddy-Daisy such interventions that are said to prevent radiative heat from the earth’s surface from escaping into space. (Photo Marla Stair-Wood) Treatments from […]
Voters, pols helpless to alter U.S. fundamentals
Elections and politicians are incapable to altering bleak fundamentals for a government-controlled and badly damaged U.S. economy and its largely wrecked free enterprise system. Today is Super Tuesday, so-called. But whatever the results of the political media program, results can hardly be super. A new chief executive will take charge, and even the best of […]
Local vote affects city future; national vote shares in delusions
Candidates for judge such as Mike Little of Chattanooga are susceptible to the public’s interest by standing for election. Mr. Little awaits results of the day’s balloting for criminal court judge in Hamilton County, Tenn. (Photo Facebook) Soddy-Daisy voters line up to insert their ballots into a state-owned machine that tallies their preferences on Super […]
Is a defense attorney or public prosecutor likely to be a better criminal court judge?
Why a defense attorney probably makes a better criminal court judge than a state prosecutor. In Hamilton County, Tenn., Boyd Patterson prosecutes for the state, and Mike Little (now in the public defender’s office) defends the accused. They are challenging a politically appointed incumbent, Tom Greenholtz. Mr. Little, despite shortcomings, says criminal court is “independent of everybody. […]
Boys who recommend themselves go farther than those who don’t
Robert Henderson, 10, helps a deacon clean the dining hall after lunch. (Photo David Tulis) “Why are you here helping me?” I ask the boy. “I don’t know,” Robert Henderson, 10, says. “I just thought I should help.” He works broom and pan. By David Tulis As deacon, I look for young men at my […]
Was slavery in the South inherently sinful, evil?
Slavery is a human condition attended with many evils, but the federal government says in its archive of interviews of former slaves that 80 percent spoke well of their former masters and that the comity between the races prior to the war is unmistakeable as historical fact. The issue has emerged in Nashville after a […]
Little says possible to be ‘just judge,’ says courts not machine for skinning poor
Public defender Mike Little says there is no conspiracy within the court system to oppress the working poor who run afoul of the state’s many “victimless crime” rules.(Photo 2012 David Tulis) By Esther Taj Attorney Mike Little has worked in the Hamilton County public defender’s office 1 ½ years and is a candidate for criminal […]
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Carefully, Southerner tells boys meaning of U.S. flag
Cooper Plotner, left, takes advice from Clay Hindman about the proper way to store the federal flag at a Trail Life USA chapter meeting in Chattanooga. (Photo David Tulis) A group of Trail Life USA boys and dads properly present themselves before the American flag. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis The lad in front […]
Passport Challenge event in city brings Hispanic right to travel into view
Gladys Pineda-Loher and Jim Coppinger, the mayor of Hamilton County, Tenn., promote a Latin event under the heading of “passports.” (Photo Facebook) Part of the prosperity and security of people in the home county here in Southeast Tennessee is the right of free movement. By that I mean not just the power of relocation and […]