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July 13, 2005

Check Yer Pulse

Two Good Articles were published today, about historic buildings in Chattanooga that teeter on the edge of either collapse or demolition, and about one that just didn't make it.

I recommend driving down Main Street, Chattanooga, USA sometime. Go from Riverfront to Dodds, or the other way. What is going on? How can we just sit by and let it?

I don't have all the ideas; nor do I have any of the money. I have a "mouth," though, or, a small mouth among many chirping birds, or something, at the very least. I have made this city my home, and it's the home of my young 'un. Am I going to have to sit him up behind the wheel of a big ol' Buick and point to the boarded-up windows like a certain song's main character does? "This is your hometown."

No, let's get private groups like Cornerstone and public commissions of the sort together and foster creative residential and small business endeavors that can, with effort and dedication, turn Chattanooga's forgotten streets into the avenues to remember.

Thanks, Aaron and Phil.

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