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Read with some amusement about federal government not listening to local leaders about new courthouse. Now they know how we in Ooltewah feel about Planning Commission.
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Unum, don’t give in to selling land to the government insisting on plopping a huge building on Vine Street. It’s your property. Don’t give in.
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Hey Erlanger! How about investing in your out-of-date facilities and improving patient wait times/care instead of slapping your name on a baseball stadium?
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During Super Bowl, going to change channels for about 25 minutes during halftime so I don’t have to listen to stupid entertainment and commercials.
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The U.S. economy is built on people buying stuff. Raising sales taxes as a substitute for property taxes is a future disaster.
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Can the Corps of Engineers set a firm completion date for the lock contractors or is this black hole just a money pit?
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Is parking free downtown if you forgot your phone or cannot pay via QR code? CPA, collect your overdue parking fines!
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Justin Cole’s comment that Chattanooga is humongous is laughable. Los Angeles, 44 miles north-south and 29 miles east-west, is humongous. Chattanooga is large.
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Ben Sessoms is intelligent, hates corruption and cares about marginalized communities. Read your Bible verses before raging against him.
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No ice cream for you! Clumpies’ closing continues CARTA’s collapse. CARTA can open a boot store in the empty space.
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Is Morris Hill Road the roughest road in Hamilton County? No. It is second only to Mack Smith Road.
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Will the non-handicapped quit misusing handicapped parking stickers? You are defrauding the public! You look silly walking horizontal from a handicapped parking spot!
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While Gov. Lee campaigns to double his private school tuition program mostly for white Christians, we should ask, what’s he doing for our public schools?
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Now Bill Lee wants to double vouchers for private schools. Do it with your own money. Stop hurting our public schools. So irresponsible.
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So many insurance ads make me think, if this is how they want to get new customers, they would not be a good insurance company.
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Headline: Tennessee Republicans plan to double tuition grants for private schools. Public school teachers are outraged! Remind me again: who did y’all vote for?
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I’ve been to China and Myanmar. ICE snatching people off the street, denying legal rights is like those countries.
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Mississippi moved from 49th to top 10 for elementary school readers through literacy coaches. Let’s get ourselves some literacy coaches.
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Walker County Schools cafeterias: no reusable trays or utensils since COVID. Such daily paper waste. Be an example to students. Save the Earth.
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(Letter writer), you are wrong. Hamilton County Schools are usually the last to close because of weather. It is for student safety, (otherwise) children are forced to be exposed to frigid temperatures.
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Truck lobby, how about getting oversized trucks off the W road?
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Bob Corker, please run for governor. I’ll pay for it.
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TFP Tuesday’s article “Minneapolis businesses serving despite crisis” — could we do the same in the South or do we have too much hate?
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Watching the behavior of Minnesotans over the past 10 years, it screams low-level lead poisoning.
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Nancy Pelosi invited illegal aliens to the State of the Union. President Trump invited victims of illegal aliens to the State of the Union. Let that sink in.
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Republicans claim the U.S. is flooded with immigrants, but (TFP, 2/4/26) the U.S. has the fewest new residents since Biden’s 2021, a historic low.
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Who’s going to pull the plug when AI gets out of control? Where is it anyway?
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Billie Eilish is giving up her mansion in California to indigenous people. Elizabeth Warren immediately claimed it as her own.
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