Can Christmas be saved? With what is believed to be the first cancellation of the East Ridge Christmas Parade, residents turned to social media to express their outrage with officials’ over the decision. You would have thought the Grinch stole Christmas.  The parade, perhaps known best as the FIRST Christmas parade of the season, has […]

A couple of very noteworthy things happened in East Ridge last week on the same day. One, most people know about. The second, most people do not. But, I’m going to let you in on it. The East Ridge City Council voted on first reading Thursday evening to allow the sale of beer during special […]

The battle lines have been drawn in the Great Debate concerning sales of beer on East Ridge city property. In last Thursday’s Workshop Agenda meeting of the East Ridge City Council, that august body met to discuss amending Ordinance 860 to allow the sale of alcohol on city property by special permit. Right off the […]

This letter is in response to the articles covering the recent shooting in Las Vegas. The second amendment of the United States Constitution states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Obviously the need for […]

I’m beginning to become annoyed by the idolatry of the Border Region Act by some of our city leaders. I’m in the second meeting of the East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting on Friday morning. Yes, Friday morning is the best time. It apparently discourages residents, citizens, taxpayers and other interested parties from attending […]

Across the country businesses along with cities and counties are changing their physical and economic landscape using Mega sports complexes.  These indoor and outdoor facilities cover every type of youth sport that you can imagine, and are designed to capitalize on the $10 billion a year business that is youth sports. Westfield, Indiana, a city […]

During last Thursday’s East Ridge City Council meeting, the council voted 3-1 for a resolution that would earmark all city and Hamilton County property tax money at the Jordan Crossing development to pay for improvements inside Camp Jordan Park. It was explained by the mayor and city manager that the resolution was merely to endorse […]

I wanted to talk to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams about his experiences in flood-stricken Houston, but I thought I would give him time to rest and decompress. So, when I went to Corner Cafe for lunch and saw the city’s fire trucks and battalion commander’s vehicle and the familiar white SUV that Chief […]

I live a few doors up from the folks who had the fire at 6607 State Line Road. I would like to personally thank the firefighters of East Ridge for the quick response. Although the family pet didn’t make it, it was not from a lack of trying. I witnessed a couple of firefighters doing […]

This Thursday’s East Ridge City Council meeting just may determine the future direction of our city. At the July 27 council meeting, City Manager Scott Miller rolled out an ambitious plan to revitalize the central part of East Ridge with his vision of creating a new “Town Center.” The project would finally, finally address that […]

Last week I  talked with Daniel Wright, the young man at Jones Memorial United Methodist Church who leads the youth there. He was excited to share a couple projects that the church had going on. On Friday, the young folks took a bunch of non-perishable food items down to Prater Road where the people at […]

Citizens of East Ridge, During a recent Community Meeting there were a couple of statements made regarding my office that I feel compelled to correct. It was stated that I had an employee in the Hamilton County Criminal Court Clerk’s office that made an outrageous salary and only worked three days a week. That is […]

It has been an interesting week seeing the back and forth between Roy Exum and Tim Boyd regarding the upcoming idea of a $15 million expansion at Camp Jordan.  While everyone seemed to argue over how it should be done, no one seemed to ask if it should be done. To me it’s as simple as […]