Category: Localism

By David Tulis As American policing continues its long road away from peace-keeping and toward a sort of paramilitary occupation, it is refreshing to consider a development that hints …

By David Tulis Survey results by the marketing company behind Thrive 2055 help us enter into the larger agenda of having a gaggle of 16 area counties join forces …

ur biggest obstacle to achieving a larger civic vision is the sad lack of over-arching governmental leadership, vision and collaboration among Hamilton County’s 10 municipal governmental bodies, and the …

By David Tulis Every Valley Leadership Academy is an effort that arose from conversations between two regulars at the Dead Theologians Society, a local group that studies the writings …

By David Tulis Local economy is a remedy along the margins of national crisis. It cannot stop what one analyst calls “multiple overlapping death spirals” that will occur when …

This 10-minute video suggests the extent of police brutality that has occurred with the militarization of policing. By David Tulis By one calculation we are 29 times more likely …

By David Tulis We sit agog before our TV sets looking at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Chattanooga. The facility employs thousands, is equivalent to 28 football fields and sent …