The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for March 15-20.
“This could have a profoundly negative ripple effect. We’re going to see more people in our [emergency rooms], more people in our jails. We have the potential to see an increase in homelessness.”
— Donna Maddox, director of the Joe Johnson Mental Health Center, on state budget plans that would severely cut case management services for the mentally ill
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“He told us that we couldn’t know his name and couldn’t tell anyone what we were going to do that night, and he gave us Xanax.”