Opinion: Enough already with election denialism
Political insanity appears to be contagious.
Opinion: We must confront the lies feeding nationalism
With nationalism sweeping across too-big swaths of the country, it's hard to be surprised - horrified certainly - but hard to be surprised at incidents like the straight-up race hate that led an 18-year-old in Buffalo, New York, to embrace the far-right racist ideology of "replacement theory" before he killed 10 people and wounded three in a grocery store. The victims were mostly Black and the shooter was white.
Opinion: Why do Smedley, the GOP want to steal our votes?
"Show me your papers!" That is the chilling authoritarian demand that became the first line in the 1942 movie "Casablanca" about encroaching Nazi control in French Morocco.
Opinion: Sabrena Smedley, Matt Hullander attempt end-run around Hamilton County voters
The "big lie" about an election has come to a mayor's office near you.
Opinion: Silverdale, Tennessee detention costs are complicated, especially by politics
Last week, Hamilton County Commissioners got a visit from Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond, who was holding his hand out again, this time for a $6.5 million budget increase that would primarily go toward the recruitment and retention of qualified corrections officers.
Opinion: What’s wrong with affordable housing? Ask the Chattanooga City Council
From the looks of the headlines about pending development in the Chattanooga area, conversations about ensuring many of us can afford to continue living here have either taken a backseat or simply aren't being heard above the clinking of big developers' gold coins.
Opinion: The war known as COVID now claims 1 million lives
As fatigued as we all are of COVID-19, it would be disrespectful today not to recognize and mourn the horrible milestone we'll likely cross by Monday - the deaths of 1 million Americans to a virus that could and should have been snuffed out last year had it not become another ridiculous political culture war talking point.
Opinion: Why is the Hamilton County Board of Education so afraid of Daddy?
Suppose you're a Hamilton County commissioner. And suppose you read in the Times Free Press on Tuesday that the Hamilton County Board of Education may come to you soon to request $10 million in recurring maintenance money. That's $10 million over the $456 million fiscal 2023 budget the school board just voted to send you. You read that they want the extra money so they can "begin" tackling the school system's nearly $1 billion in deferred building repairs.
Opinion: TVA is blowing earth’s 50-50 chance to slow climate disaster
Time's a-wasting. "Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key temperature mark by 2026," screams Tuesday's headline at the top of Page A5 in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Opinion: Chattanooga, Hamilton County plans take our breath away. Let’s be sure we see them through
Beyond thinking about specific stadium plans and wastewater treatment and how to improve schools, a city and a county like ours must have broader goals - broader, but not so broad that they become mere platitudes.