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Opinion - Free Press Editorials
Cooper: Sizing up teachers for gun duty
President Donald Trump wasn't the first to suggest that teachers be armed against potential shooters, but he has made the...
Cooper: The private sector's gun steps
We've seen the private sector lead the way on the minimum wage. Now it's doing so on gun measures.
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Cooper: Delta, the NRA and the 'ick' factor
While there are legitimate arguments to be made both for and against Delta Airlines for announcing it is ending its...
Cooper: Corker's exit needn't change outcome
It will be two terms and out for Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., after all.
Cooper: Move smoking off school premises
Even in the 1973 Brownsville Station hit song "Smokin' in the Boys' Room," a lyric noted that "everybody knows that...
Cooper: Could old be new for room tax?
Members of local arts and cultural organizations may be hoping what's old is soon new again.
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Democratic super funder's hypocrisy
Mammoth Democratic funder George Soros is quite clear about his climate change politics.
Cooper: A revitalized South Broad Street area
An artist's rendering of a transformed South Broad Street area of Chattanooga looks almost too good to be true.
Cooper: Leave sides to talk about guns
Moments after every recent mass shooting, a politician who has had a microphone shoved in his face by a reporter...
Cooper: If the state can compromise...
If the competing factions of grocery and liquor stores can compromise on a Tennessee bill that allows both to sell...
Cooper: Time to return to beautification
Historians have widely divergent opinions about the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson - specifically the effectiveness of his Great Society...
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Cooper: Billy Graham was a traveling warrior for God
The pre-eminent Christian evangelist of the 20th century was once told in Cleveland, Tenn., according to one story, that he...
Cooper: Superintendent Bryan Johnson's gamble
Superintendent Dr. Bryan Johnson would never call it a gamble, but he's betting that the money the Hamilton County Schools...
Cooper: Erlanger-UT agreement is needed
We can't see Kevin Spiegel's bottom line, and he's not showing it, but it seems inconceivable that an equitable way...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: The eye of the beholder
Former President Barack Obama's official portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery was unveiled last week. Since then, the portrait...
Cooper: Are the kids all right?
Just when you thought you were beginning to understand millennials, along comes Generation Z.
Cooper: GOP, keep immigration an issue
If, as has been suggested, Thursday's Senate votes were the most likely opportunity this year for the Senate to pass...
Cooper: All-or-nothing rhetoric won't do
Where there is an intersection between a person with a potential mental illness and an automatic weapon, bad things happen....
Cooper: The humanity at Economy Inn
No one who had occasion to get near the Economy Inn on Brainerd Road would be surprised the extended-stay hotel...
Cooper: TVA a conversation starter?
The suggestion of selling the Tennessee Valley Authority or any of its assets makes about as much sense to most...
Cooper: And the swamp expands
Our Congress took the easy way out Friday. Spending even more money to continue government operations, money it didn't actually...
