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November 23, 2004
Save The Chattanooga Theatre Center Parking Lot!: Let’s take this hotel idea out behind the viewshed and give it what for
John Coolidge, Jr. says the proposed move to move the proposed Coolidge Hotel away from the Walnut Street Bridge is “a move in the right direction,” but I wholeheartedly disagree. Oh sure, the hotel will be moving away from his favorite historical site, but what about mine? I say the hotel is just a horrible idea, no matter where it’s built.
It’s bad enough that my cherished view of the Mr. Zip has been blocked by the new condos that are being built on Frazier, but now discussions are underway to build the proposed Coolidge Hotel a few feet to the left of the Walnut Street Bridge, smack dab in the middle of the Chattanooga Theatre Center parking lot, blocking my view of the trees that have always beautifully blocked my view of the river. I shouldn’t have to walk a few feet or turn my head slightly to see a beautiful view. I want beautiful views in all directions. And I want them now. And so do a lot of other folks.
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November 09, 2004
Fed Up? Moving To Canada? Don’t let the door of freedom hit you on the way out
John Kerry’s loss to George W. Bush has left many Americans feeling alienated. Some of them are even looking—as I heard one man on the news put it—for a more “hospitable environment” in which to live.
This isn’t the first time in history when unhappy Americans wanted to flee the land of the free. In the ‘60s, many young American men fled into Canada because they didn’t want to go to Vietnam or jail and decided, out of desperation, that heading north would be a better option. But those were different times. We don’t have a draft these days, and today’s emigrants say they’re going to leave this country due to what amounts to a difference of opinion. In my opinion, that’s a pathetic reason to leave. Instead of sticking it out and working to make a difference, they would rather just quit on America. I guess that’s their right, but really, Canada? Aren’t there better places to run off to?
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