The difficulty in strengthening local economy comes from the economic and political interests whose success is crowned by centralization. The government school. Federal welfare. Total surveillance. The usual suspects. …
By Franklin Sanders After the bank runs of the early 1930s one of Franklin Roosevelt’s high priorities was somehow to restore faith in the banking system. After all, this …
By Franklin Sanders What is this American mania for making rules? Face it: America has shifted from a character-based society to a rule-based society. Formerly people’s character restrained them, …
The number of new school administrators at public schools in Tennessee grew by 34.5 percent between 2000 and 2012, while the number of new teachers increased by less than 17 percent. …
By David Tulis The demolition Wednesday of Red Bank middle school by a mass excavator is a picture of the future of public schooling. Heavy equipment began razing the …
A Dayton, Tenn., medical facility is the first link in a $2 million taxpayer-subsidized high-tech chain to connect Tennessee’s metropolitan hospitals with those in rural southwest Tennessee. This could …
I’ve been reading two volumes from the 1990s about the rise and fall of the nation-state, books that remind me of my heritage as a Swiss and an American …
The prospect for liberty in my hometown, Chattanooga, and yours is brighter. This assertion rings true despite almost daily reports about the rising police state. A story Monday indicates …
