Columnists
The latest Columnists coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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From the editors: Calling all Ranters — What is an American?
"What is an American?"

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Local History: Estes Kefauver got his political start in Chattanooga
The Chattanooga Daily Times, in early coverage of the presidential campaign in January 1956, reported that the Democratic Party was already witnessing an "open and active contest" between four candidates with the most "public familiarity."

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Good Deed: Eight Chattanooga area Girl Scouts earn highest honor
Eight local girls have achieved the Girl Scouts' highest honor, the Gold Award.

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Community Voice: The uneven starting lines of Chattanooga
Two recent articles in the Chattanooga Times Free Press made me stop and think about privilege in a way I haven't fully articulated before.

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Free Press Opinion: Democrats’ redistricting antics prove they are unfit to lead Tennessee
For nearly two decades, Tennesseans have made one thing clear at the ballot box: They want conservative leadership grounded in faith, freedom, fiscal responsibility and common sense.

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Community Voice: Remembering reverence on a New England Memorial Day
My mother, Barbara Vaughan Woodward Garside, was born in Whitman, Massachusetts in 1913, and she often spoke and wrote about Decoration Day (Memorial Day) as a serious rite of spring.

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From the editor: Goodbye to Mark Kennedy — and to an era
Mark Kennedy was the first person I met at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

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Kennedy: Goodbye, friends. It’s been a great 46 years
Long after she retired from her job as a bank teller, my mother still counted out imaginary money.

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Perspective: Trail helps Chickamauga protect our historic past, prepare for future as area grows
In a quiet corner of North Georgia, a small path traces a portion of the old Dry Valley Road, which Union soldiers used to march from Mountain Cove through Crawfish Springs — better known today as the city of Chickamauga.

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Perspective: On ‘cutie-fruity’ flavored vapes, Makary was right to object
Even at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, you likely will not find a physician without opinions about one of its most prominent alumni, Dr. Marty Makary, the former chair of gastrointestinal surgery at Hopkins who recently resigned as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
