People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“He said, ‘Oh, did you have knee surgery,’ and I said, ‘No, I was hit by a car walking across the street,’ and his words to me were, ‘Welcome to the club.'”
— Sheri Douglass, who was hit by a car in a crosswalk last year, recalling a conversation with another patient at Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation.
“People love Coolidge Park. They tolerate Ross’s Landing.”
— Scott Martin, administrator for the city’s department of parks and outdoors, on Chattanooga and Hamilton County’s plans to revamp Ross’s Landing.
“These technologies will also bring numerous additional benefits by leveraging real-time data. We can optimize our transit routes, reduce delays and enhance the overall safety and efficiency of our public transit system.”
— Charles Frazier, CEO of the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, during a news conference about the city receiving a $2 million federal grant to help study improvements to roadway technology.
“It can be hard to understand how much rain is actually needed to break the drought.”
— Kyle Snowdin, meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Morristown, Tennessee, on how rain last week affected the area’s drought conditions.
“We were very lucky to be here this weekend, and we love the sales tax holiday. I wish they had more of these tax holidays.”
— Kathy Mansfield, who lives near Jackson, Mississippi, who with her mother, sisters and children visited Hamilton Place mall this weekend during Tennessee’s sales tax holiday for a shopping trip to prepare for the start of school next month.
“The people in my district who have already bought lots that think they can do short-term vacation rentals, I’m going to encourage them to sue the county because they bought it with the premise that they could do that because our rules were in place at the time.”
— Hamilton County Commissioner Joe Graham, R-Lookout Valley, on advice he plans to give his constituents if the county commission does not approve an amendment to its recently updated rules for short-term vacation rentals.
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