August 23, 2013
Local economy — boys roughhousing
It occurred to me that I haven’t attempted to characterize local economy as either a male or a female phenomenon. One could say it is feminine because it is …
August 20, 2013
School cartel gets top heavy; bean counters gain 35% to students’ 7%
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. …
August 19, 2013
State’s 1861 law of independence reveals dignity alien to people today
The American war for independence against Great Britain is opposite to the French Revolution that followed it a few years later. The main difference is that the American struggle …
August 17, 2013
Corporate arrivals here insulate local economy from prospect of profit
The arrival of another company in the Chattanooga area is news that gladdens the soul of chambers of commerce executives and cheers the eye of the man on the …
August 15, 2013
4 conditions that will make public schools in Chattanooga less tenable
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 …
August 13, 2013
Area hospital gets U.S. handout as local service provider ignored
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 …
August 12, 2013
Provincialism gives nod to globalism as free market goes multi-level
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 …
August 10, 2013
Privacy in communications begs for distributed or local economy model
Local economy is able to deliver results for Chattanoogans and people elsewhere in a remarkable number of areas. Another one that occurs to me is the area of secure …