Pottery studio is part of what’s good about city
I found your editorial about the city pottery studio to be a pint size of truth topped off with a very mean sprit. The studio, like every other recreational facility in Chattanooga, is what makes this community great! Whether it’s public basketball courts, tennis courts, playgrounds, dog parks, river walk parks, skateboard parks, bicycle trails, football stadiums, soccer and baseball fields, all are for the community to enjoy, gather together, interact, learn and grow as humans are supposed to. That is what good life/good community is all about and is vital to the health of all of us.
Chattanooga has great things to offer, and if we take advantage of them instead of tearing them down, we would not be having a lot of the crime problems that Chattanooga currently has.
KAREN SMITH
Criminals need to experience what real punishment is
I vote to make use of our old landfills and make tent cities/jails. Cities are so strapped for money, and we are spending millions on jails that put our public schools to shame. Jail time is nothing for thugs but reunion time while getting physically fit and well-fed.
Let’s make jail more like punishment and put these menaces to work. Put them in chains. Make them mow our medians and pick up road trash, to name just two. Take that saved money and start repaving our crappy roads, for starters. We ask what can be done to end this violence. One word “punishment.”