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Judge orders TN to halt to driver license suspensions

Licenses cannot be revoked because of poverty and a failure to pay court debt, a judge has ruled (Photo Midsouthtransplant.org) U.S. District Court judge Aleta Trauger on Tuesday issued an order in one of two driver license cases in which she rebukes Tennessee for its oppressive use of state privileges to harass and oppress the […]

Reporters sketch East Ridge cast of election characters

Reporter Dick Cook reviews colorful characters, serious thinking people running for mayor of East Ridge and city council. Eight seek 2 seats on the council, with three or four serious, knowledgeable on how “the system” works. Also, a word about Esther Helton, her refusal to debate in her state house race, and her qualifications. Dick […]

I win cockroach war with local economy, bottom-up methods

This cockroach, covered with speckles of diatomaceous earth, wriggles in death agony on my kitchen floor as I go all-natural in fighting pests. The white powder covering his body also is sprinkled against the floorboard in the background. (Photo David Tulis) Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the […]

City officials, cops ignore police powers notice

City officials and the police chief are ignoring a notice that indicates current traffic enforcement protocols are illegally putting people into custody and before courts who are not in commercial jurisdiction. (Photo David Tulis) City government is ignoring an 8-month effort to bring it into compliance with state and federal law regulating the commercial use […]

Without traffic stop reform, human flourishing in Tennessee will suffer

A truck overturns and rumbles to the side of Interstate 75 in Chattanooga. Trucking is subject of police regulation because it affects the public interest and seeks a profit on the people’s roads. (Photo WTVC Newschannel9.com) Until we have Title 55 reform in Tennessee, we will have damage in society by state actors against human […]

Council passes petition for Airbnb despite fight by 2 neighbors

Tim Mahla, left, shakes hands with his dad, Walt, as John Anderson, an attorney, listens after a petition for Airbnb passes city council Tuesday. (Photo David Tulis) A family with a high-end house in North Shore won approval for an Airbnb use from city council Tuesday despite opposition from 2 neighbors who cited a litany […]

Cops schmooze with public as council apology eases Mott-Coonrod feud

Demetrus Coonrod, right, city councilwoman, speaks with Donna “Elle,” left, and Tippi Montgomery. (Photo David Tulis) Marie Mott and council chairman Ken Smith find points of common ground after city council Oct. 2. (Photo David Tulis) City councilman Demetrus Coonrod, humbled by a Christian mediation session, utters a public apology Tuesday to Marie Mott and […]

Mott decries harsh cops, exclusion of poor, demands city change

Marie Mott of 92.7 NoogaRadio and an independent social activist excoriates Chattanooga city council members as religious hypocrites for issuing prayers to God but not reining in police nor stopping the forced exodus of the poor from cheap rental houses as the market determines better use of the land (“gentrification”). (Photo Facebook at NoogaRadio) City […]