Columnists
The latest Columnists coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Opinion: New Tennessee laws will make our state more prosperous, safer and stronger
The phrase "Make America Tennessee" is gaining momentum as our state continues to experience significant victories. If more of the country followed our lead, we would be freer, safer, stronger and more united.
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Opinion: NYC mayoral ‘heartthrob’ Mamdani peddles lies
The Democrats have their stalwarts: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett, Sen. Adam Schiff and "The Squad."
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Opinion: Anti-DEI fervor out of control. Enough already
The war on DEI is ridiculous.
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Opinion: From a Democrat: The importance of Ron Hart and differing opinions
Last week, Ron Hart, a longtime contributor to the TFP's Free Press opinion page, submitted a commentary that centered on Jeffery Epstein and the mystery behind the disappearing "client list." The beginning of the column featured a few sentences about the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center accompanied by a joke.
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Local History: Post-Scopes trial, William Jennings Bryan’s death shook Chattanooga
By late afternoon Sunday, July 26, 1925, rumors began circulating that former U.S. Secretary of State, three-time Democratic presidential candidate and orator William Jennings Bryan had died in Dayton, Tennessee, where he was the prosecuting attorney in the John T. Scopes trial.
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Opinion: DOJ veteran says our constitutional system of checks and balances is out of balance
During 35 years with the Department of Justice, I helped investigate and prosecute murderers, mobsters, gang members, drug dealers, white collar criminals, and corrupt public officials and law enforcement officers.
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Opinion: Supreme Court’s majority is playing the long game
Many legal commentators apparently believe that, in the term that just ended, the Supreme Court further enabled President Donald Trump.
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Opinion: Epstein list: Something happened on the way to transparency
It was supposed to be a slow news week.
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Opinion: GOP’s ‘fiscal sanity’ crashes into hard truths
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann issued a rapturous news release after the House of Representatives and the Senate passed H.R. 1 (that "One Big Beautiful Bill Act), and sent it to President Trump in a servile response to his demand for a July 4 signing.
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Kennedy: CHI Memorial Hospital nurses get to the heart of the matter
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