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Rants

GANG CONFRONTATIONS and out-of-control flash mobs are both threats to our city that would be outlawed by officials with leadership, brains or backbone.

IF YOU CAN’T afford insurance or are unemployed you may be fined for not having health care? Why did Congress opt out of this deal?

HOW IS IT that we gave up big, mega tax bucks for an auto plant here, and Chattanooga’s unemployment rate is 10 percent?

IT WOULD BE nice if Mayor Littlefield fought as hard for senior citizens’ tax breaks as he did for Chief Cooper’s contract!

FOLKS, IT’S been a long time since we have seen a “common sense” vote by the City Council.

BULLYING MUST be stopped in city government, and each council member must be able to vote his or her own conscious.

WANT GOOD schools? Take that money and reduce class size.

HISTORY TEACHES us that people who surrender their freedom for the promise of security end up with neither.

THE HALL income tax punishes senior citizens for the crime of having invested prudently for their retirement.

“JUDICIAL DIVERSION” is simply avoidance of justice. Another calculation by elitist lawyers to rescue their country-club brothers and sisters when they’re caught red-handed.

SPEWING VITRIOLIC hatred and claiming to be a Christian, now that’s an oxymoron.