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Opinion - Free Press Editorials
Cooper: Brexit echoes key decision 37 years ago
The circumstances don't line up perfectly, but the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom Thursday, and its ramifications for the...
Cooper: Obama still wrong on illegals
Even though President Barack Obama was warned not to take the executive actions he did on illegal immigration in 2014,...
Cooper: Just what the campaign needs
On Thursday, the name of Rick Tyler, independent candidate for U.S. Congress from Tennessee's 3rd District, spread across the country...
Cooper: Carters offer marriage example
People do and will have differing political opinions about the one-term United States presidency of Jimmy Carter, but it would...
Cooper: Political game of chicken and gun
The political game of chicken came off as expected in the United States Senate Monday night, as Republicans and Democrats...
Cooper: Could community intervention work?
Is it possible that community volunteers with a headquarters and a used cab could take a bite out of crime?
Cooper: Hillary most experienced? Hardly!
Is Clinton, indeed, one of the most experienced candidates ever to seek the presidency? Hardly.
Cooper: Put proceeds back into schools
We hope for a different outcome, but another pitched battle could be ahead for the disposition of funds from the...
Cooper: Anderson's editorial voice was but a small measure of the man
Lee Stratton Anderson, who died early Thursday morning at the age of 90, was not only the editor of the...
Cooper: Breaking even would be a plus
Although the annual scenario begins to sound like a broken record — perhaps something hideous by Milli Vanilli — it...
Cooper: Chattanooga City Councilman Chris Anderson's Twitter attack after Orlando shooting
In the wake of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., the last...
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Cooper: Too soon to spin Orlando
No angle, connection, tie, assignment, linkage or membership of any aspect of the terrorist attack on a nightclub in Orlando,...
Cooper's eye on the left: Hillary-splaining on Libya
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has so successfully scrubbed the Sept. 11, 2012, massacre at Benghazi from her brain...
Cooper: More parking thought needed
North Shore resident Robert Drake unintentionally may have spoken for thousands of Chattanoogans last week about a variety of issues...
Cooper: Eric Berry's wise advice
It wasn't exactly a graduation speech, but the advice Kansas City Chiefs All Pro defensive back Eric Berry gave to...
Cooper: Plenty for UTC; little for wallet
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga appeared to hit the jackpot Thursday in state funding by the State Building Commission...
Cooper: Why not pilot student-based budgeting?
It's not exactly a throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks strategy, but public schools across the country are always searching for the next best thing...
Cooper: Uneasy lies Clinton's crown
Even the application of her crown lacked luster.
Cooper: Reducing 'free lunch' schools
It's a crazy notion, granted, but U.S. House Republicans want all children who qualify for free school lunches -- and...
Cooper: Ali's greatness is relative
More than 40 years after the last American military helicopter left Vietnam, many veterans and patriots have a hard time...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Not with my daughters
The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped feet first in the transgender bathroom controversy, not surprisingly supporting the Obama administration's...
Cooper: Politicians or not, follow the money
Oh for the good ol' days when only the politicians could be bought.
