People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“Whether you like baseball or don’t like baseball, you are coming to this building.”
— Chattanooga Lookouts President Rich Mozingo about the versatility of the event space being built at the new stadium.
“It’s going to other religions, because in America, we believe in freedom of religion.”
— Tennessee state Rep. Greg Martin responding to Hamilton County Republican Party Chair Gail Greene questioning tuition grant subsidies going to Islamic schools.
“An uproar is coming, and we’re going to make it huge.”
— Turning Point USA’s UTC chapter president Sophie Fuller after the group was approved as a student organization.
“When you pull our support services, when you are complicit in the deaths of our friends and classmates, where is the liberty and the justice?”
— Reed Hampton, a senior and chair of the Hamilton County High School Democrats, about the school board’s decision to not renew its Centerstone contract.
“We are living with health care that forces people into bankruptcy. We are living with no protection from inflation. The company has repeatedly violated labor law to delay us our fair share.”
— Steve Cochran, a skilled trades worker and cochair of the UAW bargaining committee about negotiations with Volkswagen.
“We’re going to continue to build and sell the the ID.4 here in the U.S. and do what we need to do to make sure it’s successful here in the U.S.”
— Peter Cunningham, the vice president of sales operations for Volkswagen of America on the company’s electric SUV.
“In many communities, the largest public land owner is the school district. … Being able to partner with school districts to create schoolyards, to both improve student experience as well as park access, means that there’s potential to scale far beyond just having to go buy an individual piece of greenfield and turn it into a park.”
— Noel Durant, state director for the Trust for Public Land on efforts to share school-owned land with the public.
“… Sewanee students have simply accepted that mold ‘has been a part of their entire Sewanee experience. … Residents have even given it a name — the ‘Johnson Cough.’ Stories of inadequate, hot, moldy and musty dorms are just a way of life at Sewanee.”
— A $35 million-plus lawsuit filed by University of the South students claiming they were impacted by toxic mould in campus dorm rooms.
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