Columnists
The latest Columnists coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Point: Standardized tests were built for a predictable world; that world is gone
Standardized tests were built for a predictable world; that world is gone
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Counterpoint: Standardized tests help students by creating a framework for accountability
Standardized tests help students by creating a framework for accountability
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Ron Hart: Inside info gives members of Congress impossible returns
There was a great movie 20 years ago called "Dave." It was so long ago that Kevin Kline starred in it.
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Kennedy: Dad crafts costumes for his special daughter
In 2017, Chris Nesin, a pilot for a private jet company, learned he had Stage 3 colon cancer a few days before his daughter was born.
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Local History: Chattanooga YMCA bustling in early years
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Chattanooga on Dec. 30, 1960.
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Good Deed: Local McDonald’s fry sales raise nearly $13K for food bank
For some Chattanoogans, adding a side of fries to their McDonald's order also added support for local families needing food assistance.
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Readers respond: Cannabis, derivatives not as safe as claimed
This week's Journal of the American Medical Association highlights that hemp-derived cannabis and cannabinoids are not as safe as their profit-seeking promoters claim.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee execution highlights death penalty’s depravity
The litigation — especially U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson's cynical and macabre opinion published Nov. 26 — concerning Harold Wayne Nichols' scheduled execution on Dec. 11 in Tennessee contains elements about the way our legal system operates that show not only the death penalty's depravity, but how it casts an ugly stain on lawyers generally, contributing to making law one of the most hated professions.
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Miserable ‘Mr. Potters’ on Hamilton County Commission and more in letters to the editors
What a bunch of miserable Mr. Potters we have on the county commission.
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Opinion: The problem is the Senate, not the filibuster
The most extended government shutdown in U.S. history has revived a familiar argument: The Senate's filibuster is to blame for congressional paralysis.
