Columnists
The latest Columnists coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Good Deed: Chattanooga-area Eagle Scouts logged 7,000+ hours of service
The 2025 class of Chattanooga-area Eagle Scouts served their communities for a total of more than 7,000 hours.
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Perspective: The obituary, when folks are dying to get into the newspaper
I noticed Atlanta magazine recently had my old colleague, Kay Powell, write an advance obituary for the print edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, dying at age 157 on Dec. 31, 2025.
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Local History Salvation Army, others provide Christmas cheer in 1925
It may have been the height of the "Roaring Twenties," but in Chattanooga, as in many communities across the nation, families struggled financially during the 1925 holidays.
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Pastor Bo: Rachel weeps again
It is a happy and holy time of year, both for Jews and Christians. And yet, evil never seems to care about such trivialities.
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Ron Hart: My annual Christmas list
You can tell Christmas is near: crime scenes Chicago to New York are now roped off with festive green and red tape. Here is my annual, hopeful look back:
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Kennedy: Mississippi photographer documents the South
As a child, Sophia Calderon would sneak away from her mom at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Meridian, Mississippi, to flip through the pages of Vogue magazine.
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Perspective: Can the Advent calendar craze and Christianity coexist?
Early December is peak season for Advent calendars.
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Local history: Brown’s Ferry Tavern saw key moments in history
Cherokee leader John Brown hired carpenter Caspar Vaught to build a tavern in 1803.
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Faith Focus: Rescuing Christmas from the Scrooges and Grinches
Every year, social media abounds with opinions on all things Christmas. If social media had existed in Dickens' day, one can only imagine how gleefully pre-redemption Scrooge would have used it:
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Good Deed: Unum gift drive brings cheer to 100+ families
The Holiday Cheer drive at Unum is bringing cheer to some Chattanooga families this season.
