October 25, 2007
Club Lib
The music was thumping with a steady beat, strobe lights glittering on dancing, gyrating Chattanoogans, some in golden cages. A fantastic ice sculpture and Black Tie Affair bartender made chilled martinis for people swaying to the crooning of a pianist and throaty jazz singer.
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July 06, 2007
Regularly-Scheduled "We Have Nothing to Do with WorstMayorEver.com and Are Not Billy Blades" Disclaimer
Though we've often looked at it with interest over the last couple of years, for the 17,689th time, we have nothing to do with that blog and do not know the true identity of Billy Blades. (I suppose we'd pay money to find out who it is, though.)
Otherwise insightful folks (and some dumb ones) who are floating theories that it's us are plumb wrong.
Have a nice day.
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July 04, 2007
Goodbye, Andrew Stegall
Monday was the last day at The Pulse for our much-loved advertising director, Andrew Stegall, who's taken a job selling ads to and for lawyers in Beantown. We're going to miss him.
Andrew wrote a lengthy goodbye note in this week's issue.
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October 06, 2006
Campaign Press Release Headlines That Might Have Been Pithier
Exhibit A: the title of a Corker campaign E-mail sent to us not 30 minutes ago:
"Ford’s Denial That He Presents Himself as a Lawyer Undermined By
New Video of Ford Telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer That He’s a Lawyer"
Gotcha! Wait, how's that again?
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July 06, 2006
The Josh is Back
Coming VERY soon will be a BRAND SPANKIN' NEW music podcast from, yes, Mr. Joshua Daniels.
Stay tuned...
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July 05, 2006
Of Human Bondage
Overheard aboard the Warehouse Row elevator: a middle-aged woman relating her shopping experience to her ballcapped male counterpart. "There's only two stores upstairs," she said. "And an art gallery ... that you wouldn't want to go into."
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April 06, 2006
Buffalo Vendors
Even as Chattanooga's City Council debates banning vendors from the streets, Buffalo, New York is discovering that it misses the old pushcarts. So it's bringing vendors back. But how will it prevent public spaces from turning into a melee of ice cream trucks and and hot dog men? How can the anarchy be controlled? Can anything be done to regulate these ravenous salesmen?
Well, there's this:
To make the new offerings work, the conservancy chose a range of specific places vendors may bid on for a three-year contract with a minimum annual fee of $600.
Oh, that would never work. Better to ban the vendors altogether.
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March 16, 2006
Fill Out Your Superintendent Bracket
You have four hours to make your pick in The Pulse's First Ever Hamilton County School Superintendent Pool. This is a good sight easier than picking the NCAAs. Our bracket looks like this:
(1) Dr. Jim Scales(2) Dr. Bruce Harter
So who's it going to be? The Delaware guy (Harter) or the Texas dude (Scales)? Since we're only offering you one game, here's a teaser: how many County Commissioners will attend today's selection meeting? The over/under is set at 6 1/2.
The winner of our pool receives a copy of the 2003-2004 Business Expansion Report from the Chamber of Commerce (virtually new!). Maybe there'll be something else. But incentives aren't really a local specialty.
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March 01, 2006
Jim Halpert's iTunes Playlist
The song selection on the iTunes playlist (requires iTunes to read) of Jim Halpert, sales associate for Dunder Mifflin Paper, Inc. in Scranton, Pennsylvania (portrayed hilariously each week on NBC's "The Office") is eerily close to a playlist I could see Pulse City Editor Aaron Mesh putting together. Not surprisingly, Mesh (like myself) is a HUGE fan of "The Office," and Jim in particular.
(Link courtesy of Northern Attack: the biggest, baddest, bestest "Office" site on the Web.)
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February 28, 2006
Roberts Rules
Gene Roberts has unparalleled credentials as a fiscal conservative and tremendous background in managing a large public corporation -- the city of Chattanooga.
That's Mayor Ron Littlefield on the man he has named to the Erlanger Hospital Authority Board. This is far from Roberts' first appearance in the spotlight this year; I haven't kept close tabs, but the former mayor has been a pretty constant media presence for about three months now -- at least since Littlefield resumed Roberts' old battle to nab the Tennessee American Water Company. And Roberts isn't the only former mayor to start showing up in the news: a recent TFP story on the Tivoli theater featured a quote from Robert Kirk Walker.
None of this proves a thing, but it does suggest a question: is the revival of these personas in city government part of a campaign by Littlefield to craft a new image? He hasn't done much in recent months to emphasize his election-era image of underdog and outsider, and the chirping crickets at Enterprise South haven't left him much opportunity to play job-crusading knight. But associating himself with Roberts and Walker would be a sharp move, allowing Littlefield to contrast himself against the developer mayors (Kinsey and Corker) and their possible excesses, all while asserting a deeper link with the tradition of public servants who used smaller government to aid individual citizens.
So is this the plan? Or am I making false links?
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February 23, 2006
No More in District 4
It's a small gesture, but a telling one: the Hamilton County Commission's Web site no longer contains any evidence of William Cotton. The District 4 page, which once contained Cotton's smiling visage, now only lists a general government E-mail address. What's more, the site was updated at 3:28 p.m. on Monday -- just hours after Cotton delivered his resignation. They weren't sitting on their heels for this one.
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