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Alderman Busch Thoma added a major item to Monday night's agenda while the meeting was already underway. No advance notice. No public hearing. No heads up to fellow board members. By the end of the night, the board had voted to begin dismantling a city ordinance — and most of Tullahoma never saw it coming.
Alderman Matthew Bird has recommended re-appointing two Airport Authority members three times — while never mentioning that one of them is his neighbor, close friend, and Wednesday night trivia partner.
A Facebook profile confirmed by multiple law enforcement sources as a tool created for law enforcement use has been sending friend requests, engaging in comment exchanges, and publicly boosting Jenny Anthony.
Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution designating June as Nuclear Family Month. The same tool used for Pride Month for 25 years. The reaction tells you more than the resolution does.
The city raised your property taxes promising roads and a new city hall. Spring paving started today. Mayor Lynn Sebourn's neighborhood is first on the list.
Twenty-three people left the Coffee County Circuit Court Clerk's office. Unfiltered reported the number. Now one of them is explaining why — and the answer is worse than churn.
Days before the primary, Dennis Hunt was asked if he had any regrets. He named two. Both were about other people. Here's what was in the room he's not talking about.
A Facebook page is targeting local officials, pushing zoning positions, and telling you to follow the money — without telling you whose money it is or who's behind it.
The affordable housing argument wraps a development agenda in the language of working people. Tullahoma doesn't have to accept that framing.
A candidate for Coffee County Clerk says the office could be handling driver's license renewals locally — cutting out long drives and keeping fee revenue in the county. Other Tennessee counties are already doing it. Coffee County isn't.
The Tullahoma Chamber is a member organization, a publicly funded agency, and the city's designated tourism authority — all at once. There is no public accounting for any of it.
The Tullahoma Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting for a new mural at Minuteman Press, thanked a long list of partners, and never once acknowledged the Chamber member business that provided the wall. That is not a harmless oversight. It is a basic failure of what a Chamber is supposed to do.