Our children are addicted to their cell phones. I don’t blame the kids, I would be the same way, probably worse. The Bradley County Schools have a new cell phone policy: ban the cell, bell to bell. If you’re in class, no cell phone. Hamilton County Schools should follow the courageous lead of our sister city. Can we all agree it would be a better opportunity for the teachers to teach, and the kids to learn, if we ban the cell, bell to bell? I understand parents who need a 24-hour lifeline to their children. But somehow they grew up without their parents knowing where they were 24/7. That often kept me in the clear. And I realize that times have changed. A school shooting ... (click for more)

Initially, it was suggested by a forward thinking investor in one of our county's 3378 (or more) nonprofits, that the ideal location for one of the ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement) detention centers in Tennessee for illegal immigrants would be the Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, (1896 to 2009) at Petros in Morgan County. However, the lease agreement with Chattanooga businessmen Pete Waddington and Brian May with the State of Tennessee might be a severe problem. In 2018, the two entrepreneurs took over the hotel accommodations that previously housed convicted murderers, James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King), Byron “Low Tax Looper”, (state senator Tommy Burks), and Paul Dennis ... (click for more)