People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“The lack of funding might impact the speed in which we do things, but it’s not going to impact the need to do so. Just because we didn’t get the money this year, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t need to be fixed.”
— Charles Frazier, CARTA CEO, on the agency’s minimal funding from municipal governments in Hamilton County.
“If this redesign performs like other similar redesigns over past years across the U.S., it will definitely be expected to reduce the number of injuries, the number of crashes, the number of fatalities on the street. The typical street in the typical American city is designed to welcome speeds well above the posted limit. This street was designed to encourage driving the speed limit.”
— Jeff Speck, city planner and viral TED Talk speaker, on the redesign of Frazier Avenue he helped create.
“His ideas are going to be embraced by the neighbors and residents of the North Shore area who use Frazier Avenue on a daily basis, as well as folks who just drive through Frazier Avenue periodically.”
— Chattanooga City Council Vice Chair Jenny Hill, whose district includes Frazier Avenue, on bringing in Speck to assist with the redesign project.
“We’ve had to beg, borrow and steal training locations through the years. So this really fits our needs perfectly — room to expand, room to grow.”
— John Miller, the county’s EMS director, on the agency’s new admin and training center.
“I tell you what, it’s making us look like the rear end of a donkey to the entire state of Tennessee. I will not be behind this. I will fight this tooth and nail. This is ridiculous.”
— Hamilton County Commissioner Lee Helton, R-East Brainerd, an a proposal to reorganize government offices that some argue would remove power from the mayor’s office.
“The SBC is known for our strong defense of the sanctity of human life. Nothing in the process of IVF upholds the sanctity of life. There is no way to describe the treatment of embryos at any point in the IVF process as ethical or dignified.”
— Monica Hall, a delegate from Kentucky to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis, on a resolution to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization.
“I have a son because of IVF. I have another son 20 weeks old in my wife’s womb because of IVF. … I am against the idea that this technology is so wicked that it can not be employed.”
— Zach Sahadak, a Southern Baptist Convention delegate from Ohio, on the IVF resolution.
“Based solely on the testimony of the witnesses and content of the exhibits admitted into evidence at trial, the court concludes the city has failed to carry its heightened burden of proving conduct sufficient to justify the councilwoman’s removal under the ouster statute.”
— Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Michael Dumitru in his order dismissing a residency challenge against Chattanooga City Council member Demetrus Coonrod.
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