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Opinion: Musk’s ‘chainsaw’ will damage America
In last year's presidential election, Donald Trump ominously promised voters: "I am your retribution," a warning intended to terrorize those he considered his enemies and thus make them his political victims.
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Kennedy: Days of being a K-12 parent coming to a close
As of May, my wife and I will no longer have school-age children.
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Opinion: Congress, the courts must reclaim their authority
If America's Founders had one overriding principle, it is this: Don't put too much power in one place.
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Opinion: A hostile takeover might not be what voters want
One month since inauguration day, we're getting a taste of what President Donald Trump and his administration are delivering — and even for folks who voted for Trump, this may not be the change they expected.
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Opinion: What Trump can learn from the last political disaster
This is not my first vibe shift. I was there the last time that the American right seemed to have suddenly claimed a real cultural advantage, the last time liberals and the Democratic Party seemed not just politically defeated but existentially baffled, the last time that people talked about conservatism as a rising counterculture poised to rout and remake the establishment.
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Local history: Patten, ‘most luxurious hotel’ in the South, opens in 1908
As interested Chattanooga residents watched the Hotel Patten rise against the city's skyline, Chattanooga Hotel Company General Manager C.T. Alexander assured that the luxury hotel would open on April 1, 1908. And, Alexander's promise proved accurate.
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The Rant
Why is everyone out to get librarians? If you are really concerned about obscene content, try wrestling the phones away from teenagers' hands.
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Good Deed: Food City supports United Way
Food City executives recently presented a $10,000 check to United Way of Greater Chattanooga.
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Want to save USAID? Here’s what it does and more letters to the editors
So one of the frequent contributors in the Times Free Press letters forum is a big fan of USAID?
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GOP has forgotten who is the boss and more letters to the editors
In 2000, the GOP went to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of legally cast votes in the presidential election.