Not expecting any city improvements
I appreciate the Free Press editorial about responsible growth, but that cat left the bag a long time ago. Five years ago behind my property off north Dayton Boulevard, a developer cleared a multi-acre parcel to build 75+ homes. They built berms from wood chips, dug a few retention ponds and installed silt fencing.
In the winter, the rains came. The runoff from this newly cleared parcel inundated my property and the home. I asked the city of Chattanooga about the problem, and they said the property was cleared correctly with satisfactory protection.
The city personnel in the land development office asked me if I had proof that water runoff had not been a problem in the past. Who has that? These developers have attorneys on retainer that are ready to bully individual landowners, and the city is not providing any assistance. I don’t see there will be much change to protect current landowners.
George Patten
Hixson
Has Hart lost his humor over Harris?
What happened to Ron Hart’s sense of humor? Kamala Harris, that’s what. Afraid of the prosecutor felon match-up? His column on Friday was full of vitriol spewed over, at worse, outright lies, at best, suspect cherry-picked statements.
He tried to climb back on the comedic train in his last two sentences, but it was too late. We had already heard him. Get over it. Kamala is the one. Having just read Thomas Friedman’s editorial about the ugly rhetoric of Trump and Vance, I quote, “what’s wrong with you people.”
Sue Carol Elvin
Lauds Fleischmann on energy policies
Most Chattanoogans can agree on the value of having access to affordable, reliable and clean energy.
Within just 20 miles of our downtown, we have both a hydroelectric facility at the Chickamauga Dam and the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. Together, these facilities and more employ hundreds and play a crucial role in ensuring that folks like me have electricity to power our daily lives. From nuclear and hydropower to newer sectors like hydrogen and carbon storage, clean energy offers significant environmental and economic benefits.
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee, knows this too, and as chair of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, he has made it a priority to fund federal programs that embrace an all-of-the-above energy approach and support critical research development at our world-class national labs, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory here in Tennessee.
With an ever-increasing energy demand, our city and our state at large need more — not less — clean and reliable electricity. As members of Congress hash out the next year’s spending bills, I’d like to thank Rep. Fleischmann for his continued leadership to advance policy that funds important clean energy research and deployment.
Arch E. Trimble IV
Now, even the right sees through Trump
Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s right leaning op-ed page expressed interesting views about Donald Trump. According to the WSJ’s editors, Trump’s “reaction to Biden’s decision was small-minded and divisive.” They characterized Trump’s acceptance speech as “self-indulgent” and opined that “[t]he biggest doubt voters have about Mr. Trump is that he’s a divisive, vindictive man who is unable to speak for all Americans.”
If prominent voices on the right are of those opinions, we assume voters in the center will be unable to overlook the obvious.
Richard Gossett