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08/11/2024

INBOX: Public charter school Skillern Elementary appears to send a newsletter discouraging parents of children with disabilities from applying.

08/11/2024

WATCH: “OFFENSIVE.”

on trying to bribe teachers with $2000 to get his voucher scam passed, holding public Ed investment hostage😳

: if💰exists use it for schools & teachers now🎯

poll shows ~80% OPPOSED: https://newschannel9.com/news/local/experts-weigh-in-on-changes-to-tennessees-latest-school-voucher-bill

07/11/2024

HAMILTON COUNTY: “County commissioners approved an initiative for new parents Wednesday that will allow county employees to take paid parental leave…”

Reminder: TN Republicans regularly blocked ’s efforts to pass paid leave statewide. https://newschannel9.com/news/local/hamilton-county-approves-maternity-paternity-leave-for-employees

06/11/2024

There's not much to celebrate today but Stefanie Dalton won her commissioner seat.

We have to focus on the small victories because there may not be many more coming our way for a while.

We'll be here with you when there are.

05/11/2024

⚡️ PASS THIS TOOL ON — DID MY FRIENDS VOTE? —> https://app.impactive.io/did_my_friend_vote

Check if your friends voted, text them if they didn’t.

05/11/2024

Tonight at Miller Plaza & Georgia Ave…

31/10/2024

👀 Check out this Chattanoogan poll: Kathy Lennon is beating Michelle Reneau 55% to 45%!

29/10/2024

Fiscal conservatism update:

Hamilton County spent over half a million dollars defending a former sheriff's deputy who forcibly baptized a woman during an arrest (who died after filing an $11 million dollar lawsuit). Wilkey was subject to 10 (!) federal lawsuits.

Hamilton County paid more than half a million dollars to defend former sheriff's deputy Daniel Wilkey, who may be the most sued employee in the county's history on record, litigation expenses show.

28/10/2024

👀 "Mayor Weston Wamp would rather back-room scheme than do an honest day’s work."

C.Mark Warren doesn't mince words as he calls out Weston Wamp for hiding the true cost of moving CCA from the county commission.

I have been a businessman in Chattanooga and resident of Signal Mountain for over 44 years, with 34 years of that time, living and paying taxes within the town limits of Walden. Many folks, who ... more

27/10/2024

Fiscal conservatism update:

Hamilton County mayor and Millennial Debt Foundation founder Weston Wamp knowingly underestimates how much it would cost to move CCA to a new campus by about half.

Hundreds of pages of emails, texts and architectural reports obtained by the Chattanooga Times Free Press show Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp knew moving the Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts to a new Westside campus would cost more than $80 million when he gave documents to the co...

26/10/2024

Chattanooga Times Free Press: “’s (Private School Vouchers Scam) Perhaps the Biggest Threat to Public Education”

One fix: Not ‘perhaps’
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/oct/25/opinion-sessoms-soapbox-school-vouchers-are/

17/10/2024

WATCH: no-shows debate in Franklin, podium sits empty

“This discussion was to be between 2 candidates — only accepted our invitation.”

In FRANKLIN pointed out Blackburn failed to respond at all. (She ghosted other outlets also)

16/10/2024

🔥 WATCH — workers respond to Trump saying a child could do their jobs: “Until you work a manual labor job, keep the UAW out of your mouth… you were born with a silver spoon up your ass.”

16/10/2024

CHATTANOOGA — line out the door for early voting at the Hixson Community Center 👀 🇺🇸 🗳️

16/10/2024

🔔 TODAY: U.S. Senate debate @ WILLIAMSON COUNTY’s admin complex 530pm cst

confirmed ✅ not responded❓(an empty podium will await her)

will moderate. joins us as sponsors.

(Also streamed live on our Holler feeds)

13/10/2024

WATCH: “They demonstrate to us every day how powerful we are — that wasn’t about expelling me & Rep. Pearson, that was about expelling our movement.”

Rep. in BRADLEY COUNTY 👇🏽

Full speech: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfR7fCHhKP8

13/10/2024

More endorsements from the Times - Missy Crutchfield!

https://www.facebook.com/share/gDUu6hLpugsS9VCu/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Staff photo by Abby White / The Chattanooga Times opinion page has endorsed Democrat Missy Crutchfield, shown here on Sept. 18, 2024, in the November election for the Tennessee state Senate District 10 seat. The Tennessee General Assembly and its GOP supermajority have been on quite the streak in re...

12/10/2024

Here's the Times endorsement of Kathy Lennon (remember, the Free Press side declined to endorse her opponent, Michelle Reneau).

Staff photo by Matt Hamilton/ The Chattanooga Times has endorsed Kathy Lennon, shown here campaigning on Signal Mountain on Oct. 4, 2024, in the state House District 27 race. Ask most people who live in Hamilton County, and they'll tell you more needs to be done to improve public schools. It's been....