by allison | Mar 4, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
In journalism school I was taught never to write about a future event as if it’s already happened. If it’s Tuesday morning and you’re writing for the Wednesday paper about a new pizza place that’s set to open Tuesday night, that’s how you phrase it. It didn’t open; it...
by allison | Feb 26, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Even if you don’t have school-age kids, please read this nerdier-than-usual story about Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher push. It says everything about how our state government works now, and how it isn’t serving Tennesseans. When Lee was elected in 2018, he resurrected...
by allison | Feb 13, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
My dad was a pilot, so I grew up hearing from my mom something he used to tell her: how important it is to trust your instruments and not your instincts when you’re flying. It’s hard to believe technology that’s says you’re right-side up when your body says you’re...
by allison | Feb 10, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Soddy-Daisy speaker packs a lot into a party label Refuge Assembly Church, in Soddy-Daisy, sits just a mile outside State House District 26, which stretches from North Chattanooga through Hixson, Soddy-Daisy, Lakesite, and Sale Creek to the Rhea County line. So it’s...
by allison | Nov 4, 2022 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Yesterday I voted for myself. What a strange feeling! Maybe some first-time candidates dream of seeing their name on a ballot the way some girls dream of their wedding day. I’m not that candidate. I also wasn’t that girl. Until Tim proposed to me, the thought of...
by allison | Nov 1, 2022 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
When my kids were little, the unspoken rule was you didn’t trick-or-treat until dark. Well, somebody changed that rule and didn’t tell me. That’s how I ended up awkwardly knocking doors at 5 p.m. along with dozens of children in Jefferson Heights. At one home I rang...
