People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“I hate thinking of the signs just sitting in landfills, that bothers me a lot. I am extremely happy to see them go to a good cause.”
— Unsuccessful Tennessee House of Representatives candidate Allison Gorman, whose campaign signs are among those finding a second life with a Harrison Bay beekeeper winterizing his hives.
“People can see this and realize that anything is possible, that someone from Chattanooga can go out here and end up in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I’m hoping that not only I inspire other people, but it also kind of lights a fire under me as well to realize that anything is possible.”
— Jordan Austin, sousaphone player at East Tennessee State University and a Red Bank High School graduate, on the university’s marching band appearing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
“My job is to push decisions that are going to make the lives of Tennesseans better, and I’m always willing to have that conversation with people that want to make the lives of Tennesseans better.”
— U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on her willingness to work with Democrats on bipartisan legislation.
“I’ve kind of joked that getting affordable is like getting back to our college weight, right? It’s fun to think about and talk about, but it may never happen.”
— Chattanooga-area developer Gabe Thomas on building more affordable homes.
“It’s part of the improvement in employment in the city in particular. They’re here because it’s already thriving, and then it just grows on that. That’s a big change, and I think it’s really part of the revitalization of the city itself. The rate of employment, wages have been going up. The types of jobs are going to be changing, the economy is going to transform as different types of people start moving into town.”
— Howard Wall, an economist and researcher at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, on the growing in-migration of young, educated adults to the city.
“It’s a never-ending cycle. I mean, it’s stupid and pointless, which is what’s so sad about it.”
— Hamilton County special prosecutor Austin Scofield, on gang violence.
“This funding helps prevent eviction, hunger and the possibility of freezing without utilities. We help bridge the gap for people to get to the next paycheck.”
— Terran Anderson, vice president of community and corporate engagement for United Way of Greater Chattanooga, on the Neediest Cases Fund from the Chattanooga Times Free Press being renamed the Ochs Community Fund.
“She was a beautiful woman, you know, intelligent, kind, caring. And she just got taken advantage of by a ruthless individual.”
— Richard Hanchett on his mother, Ruth Marie Terry of Marion County, whose badly mutilated body was found in 1974 in the dunes of Cape Cod.
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