Alum thankful for coverage
Thank you for sharing the exciting news about UT Chattanooga in your revived local newspaper. The rapid growth, the multiple national honors, the successes of our athletic teams and the momentum on campus are inspiring and worthy of repeated mention in publication. It is refreshing to see photos and positive articles about the students, faculty and leadership at Chattanooga’s university in our daily news. Thank you for the attention!
Claire Smith
President, UTC Alumni Board of Directors
Signal Mountain
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Riverfront plans need public vote
Pause the Ross’s Landing project and hold public town halls before any construction begins.
Ross’s Landing is public land. The city doesn’t get to quietly convert it to private restaurant leases without a vote.
Tracy Craddock
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Risk not worth reward in strait
If you want the real picture of oil tanker navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, go to vesselfinder.com and locate that area. Then use the red vessel filter to isolate tankers only at the northern end of Oman. What you’ll see is four distinct areas around Oman where there are masses of yellow circles. Every one of those circles is a tanker carrying a petroleum-based product or natural gas, and every one of them is at rest under anchor.
Come back the next day and the one after that to see what changes. Not much is what you’ll find. Clearly, despite whatever assurances, threats or demands are made by this administration, the ownership and those manning these vessels do not want to risk moving through the strait. At its narrowest, the strait is about 30 miles wide, sufficiently narrow that the coastline of northern Oman can be seen from the western coastline of Iran. The reward does not rise to the level of risk in this region.
Peter L. Steyn