Columnists
The latest Columnists coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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My employer health plan denied payment for my cancer claim
I need your assistance to enroll in Medicare because I am past 65 and still working full-time with employer benefits.
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From the editor: Data showed a pattern in immigration arrests. We had to tell the story
The most compelling local journalism usually begins with a pattern someone notices on the ground.
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Flag Day, Bennett’s American Dream, TCAP testing and more Rants
It's Flag Day! Fly Old Glory. Home of the free because of the brave. Freedom of press, to worship, to bear arms. Now defend her.
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Good Deed: Hixson, Collegedale students help raise over $17k for new mothers in Sierra Leone
Students at local schools raised more than $17,000 to fund pre- and postnatal care for new mothers and their babies in Sierra Leone.
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Community Voice: We need a plan to preserve the future of Chattanooga’s past
Imagine, for a moment, that every building and structure in Chattanooga constructed before 1940 vanished overnight.
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Local History: Kefauver calls out corruption in Tennessee politics
Chattanooga's Estes Kefauver was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1939, after campaigning as a progressive supporting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Community Voice: For safe streets, don’t let information substitute for action
I got hit by a car in a crosswalk two Fridays ago.
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Readers write: Students’ America 250 essays inspired hope for future
My thanks to the editors of the Times Free Press for the essay contest, "What is an American?"
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Student essay: What is an American? One who accepts the duty to perfect our nation
When I look at the American flag hanging in my classroom, I don't just see red, white and blue. I see a messy, complicated and beautiful work in progress.
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Student essay: What is an American? One who understands opportunity and uses it well
An American is not only defined by birthplace, a passport or an accent. An American is defined by how they understand and use the opportunities placed before them.
