Oh great, out of town real estate developers & hedge fund managers and do-goody-good rich white philanthropists that come into impoverished neighborhoods to tell them what they need. Poor people aren't poor because they live amongst other poor people. Putting them in "mixed-income" housing doesn't make them not poor anymore, it just increases property values. Every real estate sniffer in Chattanooga drools over getting their hands on the Westside property. Watch out Westside - here comes liberal white guilt, gonna fix you right out of your situation!

How many signatures collected by teabaggers were photo ID verified? Those folks have a copy of the constitution implanted in their rectums and wouldn't stand for any kind of democratic political free speech to be hindered by undue hurdles or recall petition poll taxes, right? So if the teabaggers collected most of the signatures then those petitions should be squeaky clean, right?

It will be a great day when (all) our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.

Did WTCI ($1,000), Brewer Media ($13,000), Chattanooga Parent Magazine ($1,500), Pediatric Eye Specialists ($1,500), Riverview Animal Hospital ($1,500), Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz ($1,000), Grant, Konvalinka & Harrison ($1,000), Miller & Martin ($1,000), Berke, Berke & Berke ($500), Eric Buchanan & Associates ($500), Chattanooga Presents ($500), LiveIT Realty ($500) and the other Normalpalooza sponsors donate to any other "public" schools?

To all the other public schools in Hamilton County: are you asking companies for money? You should be. Here are good places to start.

Central Office would like to see the zone done away with altogether.

...and the teabaggers say federal regulations restrict job growth.

Oh good grief, Charlie Brown! Can we please have some different candidates for the 3rd District?! Two flavors of Red Kool-Aid, Chucky Wamp are. What about blue raspberry, coffee, tea, water, beer or wine for this political tasting we are heading into for August 2012. There has to be better options than these corporate/evangelical tag-a-longs.

fathers. where are their fathers?

how ironic the company is Scenic Land Company. as the rule goes with developments, name it after what was destroyed.

I hope it is a regular grocery store, not anything that pitches itself as upscale or gourmet. So no Fresh Market or the ilk. How will trucks make deliveries to this location?

Dear Employers, It's important to pay your employees a living wage, respect them and their families, and don't overwork people. Who knows what happened at this BP but this is a good opportunity to remember that happy workers are safer and more productive than unhappy workers.