People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“The noise and pollution we would have from this will make Bowater look like a toy truck. There’s been no consideration to the people who live in Bradley County. They just see dollar signs.”
— Carolyn Earnest, who owns land adjacent to a proposed $11.3 billion industrial campus in Bradley County, comparing it to the historic Bowater pulp mill.
“It’s illegal to buy and sell human tissue, so it’s not like I’ve got to go buy raw material.”
— Ryanne Early, CEO of Seed Biotech, a Chattanooga company that turns donated placentas into skin grafts.
“Gas prices are higher, but I only get one vacation a year, so I determined we were going to go no matter what.”
— Paul Pickens, visiting Ruby Falls on a weeklong Tennessee vacation from Michigan City, Indiana.
“If you’re going to try it anywhere, this is the place.”
— Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly on plans to add self-driving shuttles to the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority’s fleet thanks to a $25 million federal grant.
“Instead of Silicon Valley finally coming up with a solution for how to do this and then selling it to us, I wanted it to come from Chattanooga.”
— Daniel Lucas, founder of software start-up Meridian, describes his platform for helping freight brokerages answer questions using their own data.
“Everybody needs to get their walking shoes ready. We’re going to get on that bridge and have a good time.”
— Chattanooga City Council member Raquetta Dotley, of Alton Park, on the Oct. 3 planned reopening of the Walnut Street Bridge.
“It’s the lazy analysis. If you don’t say what I want you to say, then you’re bought.”
— State Sen. J. Adam Lowe, R-Calhoun, describes false claims people have made online about his connections to the Wright family, the owners of a Bradley County property that could become a major industrial campus.
“I think it’s important for people to know that joro spiders are safe to have in their yard. They are not going to go out of their way to attack a human or a pet or someone’s kids.”
— Erin E. Grabarczyk, an assistant professor of biology at Valdosta University, on a new report showing joro spiders compete with native species for food less than previously thought.
“We want to literally take it from the lab to the streets.”
— Mina Sartipi, interim vice chancellor for research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, on receiving $3 million in federal funding to apply research practically.
“I now have no more school board representation. So I hope when my county tax bill comes in, I will not be charged because there’s something called no taxation without representation.”
— Hamilton County District 11 resident Blake Wright on the vacancy left on the county school board by resigned member Jill Black.
“While they have proven to be useful at times, “we successfully prosecuted cases long before they existed and we will continue to successfully prosecute cases regardless of whether they continue to exist.”
— Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp on the Sheriff’s Office pausing its Flock and Motorola license plate reader program in response to residents’ concerns.
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