The voter ID law is already doing what it was designed to do. Cause enough confusion for both the citizens and the workers issuing the IDs long enough to prevent certain classes and races from being allowed to vote in the next election. Their theory being the culprits of said law when be able to put into office their own puppets who will then have the power to change more laws in order to make voting for some completeley and forever obsolete.

"Fewer Hamilton County teens trying drugs, alcohol, sex"

Or maybe, just MAYBE, teens have gotten smarter when answerin surveys? Really now. Do you really think anyone who responds to these surveys, adults or teens, actually answer all questions honestly and truthfully? Get real!

If they got rid of all the perverts and people who abuse their positions of power the city would be down to a skeleton workforce in city and county government. That would include everything from law enforcement, jailers, and a host of other miscreants who routinely abuse and taken advantage of their positions.

But still, what was the victim doing with a 14yr. old girl in his home? Just becauses someone performs good deeds doesn't mean there can't be some other motive behind those good deeds. Even if only for impropriety sake an old man with an underage teen doesn't look proper.

Prior to 1965 Mr. Gerald Whitely of Ringgold must have lived in a very different America than the rest of us. Prior to 1965 and Johnson's "war on poverty", many Americans lived in shantys and on the river banks in poorly thrown together structures that resembled South Africa's apartheid era shanty towns or poor Vietnamese river housing. Those individuals worked alongside their co-workers performing equal and more duties at unequal pay. Nepotism was at its highest, so was segregation, unequal pay for the same days work. Unequal educational opportunities. The ones on top were achieved at the expense of others being forced to remain at the bottom. If things had begun on principle and honor rather than greed, there would have likely not been a need for those social programs if the playing field had been made equal from the start. There have always been social programs, but they were designed for a select few to allow them a headstart. So Johnson tried to even out the playing field by making those social programs accessible to everyone, and not just the wealthy, well contacted and the likes.

People who move to Chattanooga from other cities eventually realize Chattanooga is a very cliquish small minded city. Anyone who is not considered in the loop or a team player is considered an outsider. They usually move on to more open minded citities where differences of opinions are welcome and even celebrated and ecnouraged.

He didn't show up? Or was he PREVENTED from showing up? There's a very big difference, and wouldn't be the first time someone was harassed and threaten into not showing up.

Did anyone mention the politician who sponsored this bill has a wife who either owns or has BIG STOCK OPTION in the lab that would handle these drug testings? This bill has nothing to do with poor people receiving public assistance who might be usin drugs, and everything to do with this politician's desire to stuff his own pockets.

So, he was dating a subordinate. That happens in just about every place of employment and profession. From firefighters to cops on down to fast food supervisors and management. someone's casting stones here because they've long had it in for Mr. Foster. After all, he had the audacity and balls to ruffle a few local feathers. Especially the feathers of some of the local CPD {wink! wink!}

It is reported that the remains of more than 1,200 prisoners who were massacred in 1996 by the Gadhafi regime have been discovered in a desert in Libya.

Didn't America once praise Gadhafi? The same they once considered Saddam Hussein an ally?

There are mass graves America too. One in Oklahoma?, I think, where a University now sits on top of.