Why Does an 85% Winning Mayor Call Humility a Form of Vanity?

Mayor Tim Kelly ran for mayor of Chattanooga in 2021. He won. He was re-elected in 2025 with 85% of the vote. Topics include: Why cities, not nations, are the primary engines for human progress. What the "silent majority" actually looks like when you knock on their doors. How to dissolve a political fight through language choice (the climate-action-plan rename); How a 12,000-year-old archaeological site has a mental hospital sitting on top of it. And what a Christian question about the homeless sounds like underneath the municipal policy.