Last week, Pam Sohn, opinion editor of the Times Editorial Page, interviewed Mayor Tim Kelly about policing and other issues. Here is a transcript, edited for clarity and brevity, of the conversation about policing:
The Chattanooga Police will not be auctioning off guns that have been seized or confiscated.
It would seem that Tennessee's state lawmakers and governor are doing all they possibly can to discourage COVID-19 vaccination.
It seems that everywhere we look, we see signs of life returning to normal in our post-pandemic world.
If you're scratching your head about why so many Republican governors are suddenly falling all over themselves to announce they're sending a handful or so of their state's National Guard troops or law enforcement officers to help out on our Southern border, you're looking for rational answers.
Come see Tennessee on Lee - Gov. Bill Lee, that is.
Who remembers when Gunbarrel Road in East Brainerd was a two-lane byway through cattle pastures with a few small houses here and there?
Two hundred forty five years. Seven to 10 generations. That's how old - or young - this country of America is.
Well, well, well. It seems Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee does listen to some people.
Sound the trumpets! Hamilton County at long last may be nearing the opening - perhaps by August 2022 - of a vocational and technical trade school in the heart of Chattanooga on a regular public bus line.
