Morning Press Blog
Secret Santa
Bikes, bikes, bikes -- if you've got an old bike you want to donate to a kid who doesn't have one, here's the contact info.
Read more...11-18
There was no property tax increase in Chattanooga, but please don't tell me there wasn't a tax increase. Council raised sewer fees 3% last night. That's on top of the huge increase in the Water Quality "don't-call-it-a-stormwater-runoff" Fee they passed last month. Council doesn't have any problems voting for a tax increase as long as it's not a property tax increase.
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11-16
If you haven't heard, let me make sure you know: The Soddy-Daisy High School Marching Band is going to the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena and needs you to give them some money. If you haven't heard, you're probably the only one who hasn't.
Read more...10-27
Maybe the concern over people coming into the country without knowing how to speak English is misplaced. Even our elected leaders don't speak it very well. Case in point: Carlus Mosier from Varnell, Georgia. City Councilman Carlus Mosier, who complains that Mayor Dan Peeples has "a personal vandanna" against him.
Read more...10-14
I'm still shaking my head at Councilwoman Carol Berz's statement that public art at the Brainerd tunnels has helped "bring together a very diverse community." The last I heard from Brainerd was Boosie and Dookie Butt firing shots at the owner of the car they had just stolen from the Conoco a couple of blocks up from the "Rolling Dancing Moons" statue. Are you telling me the Bloods and the Gangsta Disciples have decided to stop firebombing houses to compare the antiquity of Phidias to the contemporary sculpture of Claes Oldenburg?
Read more...10-13
I love dogs. They don't care what kind of a day you've had when you come home, they love you. If you're excited watching your team play football on TV, they're excited watching it with you -- even if you're rooting against the Dawgs. That in mind, I don't feel the need to take them out to Table 2 for dinner.
Read more...10-9
Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Don't you actually have to achieve something before you get that award? To say the announcement this morning was "stunning" would be a severe understatement.
Read more...9-29
Jeff always says we live in "the buckle of the Bible Belt." But I hear that when I go to Nashville, too. And Knoxville. I heard it when I was working in San Antonio. Doesn't anyone in the Bible Belt live over near the first belt loop? And if it really is a belt, somebody's got to be in the very back right above the butt crack.
Read more...7-24
It's Jeff, JR and Kevin now -- but 40 years ago it was Bob Rich, Seymour Duck and George J. Montgomery in the WGOW morning air chairs. We're really so much better off today than we were then -- even though it seems like we're going to hell in a handbasket.
Read more...7-15
I'm all a-Twitter. I capitalized Twitter because that's what I mean: Twitter. Follow me @KevinWestWGOW. I'm very much still learning the mechanics. I've been on Facebook for a while, but just because that's also a "social media" site doesn't mean I can speak Twitter.
Read more...6-15
Where is it you go that screams "Chattanooga!?" Doc, JR and I came up with a definite three: Bea's, Nikki's and Zar-Zour's. Doc and JR seem to agree that Merv's is a solid number four, but it's not so solid if Wally doesn't agree and he doesn't.
Read more...6-3
I'm beginning to believe my idea for a Talk Radio 102.3 Bikini Team really is dead. I came up with it a few years ago when I got to help select the Ram Tool Bikini Team. I thought then what a terrific idea it would be to choose a Talk Radio Bikini Team for our appearances. Certainly, it would make the job more fun for Jeff, JR and me.
Read more...5-8
I can't imagine how The Pina Colada Song got so popular back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I guess a "soft rock" song that talks about a fru-fru drink and getting caught in the rain works for women -- even if its really about two people trying to dump each other without telling each other.
Read more...4-28
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I'm betting Virgil Nickerson got more than a thousand words from his wife for each picture on his cell phone. They were naked pictures. Of women who were not her.
Read more...3-25
When did the rules for riding your bike on the road change? Maybe it was when, instead of riding your bike, you were "cycling."
Read more...3-11
$50,000 later, city council has heard what I've been telling them for free over the last several years: nobody uses the library. I got blasted every time I'd say it, but now there's somebody who has sold council a study that says the same thing.
Read more...2-17
If you've got faith enough to believe the Noah story completely as written, we ought to have faith enough to spare to pull us out of our little economic dip.
Read more...1-20
The Beatles weren't the best band ever. They weren't the funniest or most clever musicians. But they were in they were in the right place at the right time and had "it," whatever "it" is, at the moment "it" was needed. Same thing with Barack Obama.
Read more...1-13
Chicken farming today is becoming all the rage among the "arts set" and, as Robert T. might describe it, "the hippies." Now Signal Mountain is about to spawn a new crop of backyard chicken farmers. That being the case, I thought it wise to publish a few chicken facts to aid in the Signal Mountain town planners' decision-making process.
Read more...1-7
We've reached the point where we're closing schools for rain now. I've stopped fighting it. America has turned into a nation of absolute crybaby wusses and it's not wonder we're toppling form our perch as the world's leader.
Read more...12-10
I've been trying to explain to my son what a "shhh" song is. I know you understand a "shhh" song. When the 8-track looped around to the first few piano notes of "Desperado" on the Eagles' album of the same name, you "shh, shh, shhhh"'d everyone and got them quiet in time for you to sing.
Read more...11-25
The book is called "How To Get Paid $50,000 A Year To Travel (Without Selling Anything). It's by Craig Chilton. Yes, it sounds too good to be true, so give him a call at 1-800-247-6553. Or click his Road Rat web site.
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