Free Press Opinion: Trump may wish he had Bush’s success in 2002 election
President Donald Trump has never had much good to say about former President George W. Bush, but we're sure he wishes he were in the same position as the younger Bush in 2002.

President Donald Trump has never had much good to say about former President George W. Bush, but we're sure he wishes he were in the same position as the younger Bush in 2002.

The above wasn't the 37th president's comment upon signing the Education Amendments Act of 1972, which included Title IX, which prohibited sexual discrimination in any institution receiving federal funding, but it might have been.

Just over a decade after a Tennessee law went into effect allowing annexation only by consent of those who would be annexed, some lawmakers want to undo a part of it.

If the government closest to the people governs best, Tennessee Republicans have a funny way of showing that.

The bill suggests the Ten Commandments be posted in schools alongside such documents as the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Tennessee Constitution, a resolution honoring the history of a school (or the public charter), or "other historically significant documents."

Fifty years ago this week, Chattanooga city commissioners were discussing a new downtown park that would be the first such major project for the area in decades.

Somewhere in Tennessee, a contingent of people believe the state should observe standard time throughout the year, eschewing the months when the nation observes daylight saving time. No more springing forward and falling back.

The immigration bill that had many Tennesseans aghast a year ago has now passed the state House.

For those of us who were concerned about the morality of the creation of the Tennessee Lottery nearly a quarter century ago, through a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2002, there always was the trade-off of the potential number of young people it would help go to college.

National Democrats who began salivating when one of their own, Shawn Harris, outpolled 16 other contenders in the special election Tuesday for Georgia's red, red, red District 14 U.S. House seat should get a grip on themselves.
