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Opinion - Free Press Editorials
Cooper: City Council must 'play as a team'
The next Chattanooga City Council will be younger, more racially diverse and more gender diverse.
Cooper: Legislators fail students again
Forget, for a moment, the parents and whatever label you want to assign them — illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, illegals,...
Cooper: Volkswagen scratching USA's SUV itch
With year over year sales of sports utility vehicles in the United States up 5.5 percent, Volkswagen has decided to...
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Cooper: Cold case unit paying off
Shortly after Neal Pinkston became Hamilton County District Attorney General in 2014, he told the Times Free Press editorial board...
Cooper: King Street lot needs fair price
It appears a potential $60,000 loss by the city of Chattanooga on a parking lot in the burgeoning Southside won't...
Cooper: Mayor Berke familiar with searching for new police chief [video]
When Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke takes the oath of office for a second term later this month, he'll find himself...
Cooper: A local federal bureaucracy irony
It's not really funny, but we have to chuckle a little when one federal bureaucracy meets another.
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Clinton still assigning blame
Former President Bill Clinton said FBI Director James Comey's was at fault for his wife's presidential election loss, then later...
Chattanooga Free Press endorsements for city council runoff elections
Chattanooga voters in Districts 7 and 9 will return to the polls Tuesday for a runoff election that will decide...
OPINION: What will be Trump doctrine
Less than a year ago, writing in Politico, Derek Chollet, President Barack Obama's former assistant secretary of defense for international...
Cooper: History's civil rights network
Chattanoogans interested in history and heritage are fortunate to be relatively close to the sites of significant events in the...
Cooper: The Supreme Court and how we got here
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was smugly looking ahead to the presidency of Hillary Clinton last October and the...
Cooper: Who's deciding District 9 race?
An average of fewer than 50 people per day have shown up to vote early for the upcoming Chattanooga City...
Cooper: Finding sense on seat belts
Seat belt sensibility finally is emerging in the Tennessee General Assembly.
Cooper's Eye on the Left: A D.C. odor about him
Democrats are pinning their hopes on gaining a U.S. House seat in an April 18 special election in Georgia's 6th...
Cooper: Fire finally lit on schools plans
The joint meeting of the Hamilton County Commission and Hamilton County Board of Education on March 14 was short on...
Cooper: Pass student tuition bill this year
The soundness of allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Tennessee public colleges and universities is...
Cooper: UTC's regional tuition gambit
Until 2007, some residents of Missionary Ridge and some residents inches outside of East Brainerd had to pay out-of-state tuition...
Cooper: Tennessee Senators offer a bridge
Too many politicians throw up their hands, blame the other guy or say the system's broken when an issue seems...
Cooper: Think before reacting
Protesting and complaining without knowledge of an issue has become all the rage.
Cooper: Commemoration is a 'thank you' to Vietnam War veterans
It was neither the 50th anniversary of the start nor the end of the Vietnam War, but the sight of...
Cooper: Firing of WUTC reporter chilling
Regardless of one's feeling about a failed Tennessee General Assembly bill that would force transgender students to use the restroom...
Cooper: Walker County may vote on its future
Walker County voters are just a couple of short steps away from getting to vote on their form of government.
