Columnists
The latest Columnists coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Times Free Press to hold America 250 student essay contest: “What is an American?”
To mark the America 250 anniversary this year, Chattanooga area high school students are invited to submit essays responding to the question: "What is an American?"
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Community Voice: Recognizing and using political anger
Few issues elicit near-unanimous agreement from both the political left and right. The virtually universal opinion that political anger permeates our country is one such issue. However, that shared view vanishes like a mirage upon inspection.
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Free Press Opinion: Gov. Bill Lee says education freedom program needs to double capacity
One year ago, we opened the doors of opportunity for Tennessee families with Education Freedom Scholarships – a school choice program for students in all 95 counties across our state – and the response has been nothing short of extraordinary.
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Times Opinion: PFAS in Northwest Georgia shows a failure of planning
When I was about nine years old, I remember riding in the car along Pine Chapel Road in Gordon County, Georgia, and seeing tanker trucks spraying sludge across pastures while cattle stood nearby.
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From the editor: We live in a quantum world. What does that mean, anyway?
Somewhere under the pile of press releases, sci-fi-looking graphics and announcements full of scientific jargon, quantum became a persistent object of great curiosity in the Times Free Press newsroom.
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Perspective: Chattanooga’s next big leap — from Gig City to Quantum City
The city that built America’s fastest internet could now help build the future of secure global communications
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Local History: Survivors of ‘The General’ raid return to Chattanooga after Civil War
In October 1906, Chattanooga hosted the 34th reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, a large gathering of Union veterans including Wilder's Brigade.
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Readers write: A (new) modest proposal for Tennessee lottery
The article and the Free Press editorial on March 17 concerning legalized sports gambling cannibalizing revenue from the state lottery are interesting as they present two examples of using the ends to justify the means.
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Good Deed: CommonSpirit, YMCA volunteers pack 1,400 meals
Volunteers from CommonSpirit (formerly CHI) Memorial Hospitals and Medical Group packaged 1,400 meals with staff at the J.A. Henry Community YMCA this month.
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Faith Focus: Even God’s dirt is better
A recent death threat from an unhinged internet crackpot, followed up by 26 pages of hateful emails, was pretty unique. While receiving threats in the ministry is not an odd thing at all, this was the first time I ever felt compelled to make the authorities aware.
