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Free Press Opinion: It’s Pride and Papaya Month; celebrate responsibly and without government support
Hey, it’s Pride Month. Celebrate, or hide the children from any rainbow flags that might flutter in more abundance for the next four weeks. Your choice.
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Free Press Editorial: Alligator sculpture in Fountain Square recalls interesting history
We were intrigued by a recent Facebook post by Chattanooga and Hamilton County historian Linda Moss Mines that showed a new metal alligator sculpture beneath the recently refurbished fireman's statue at Fountain Square across from the Hamilton County Courthouse.
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Free Press Opinion: Democrat Green has little chance of keeping promises even if elected
Our Democratic friends don't have a corner on making outlandish campaign promises, but they certainly have more practice at it and go to more extremes.
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Free Press Opinion: Chattanooga can handle two open-air music venues to regain that Riverbend vibe
We don't know what kind of concerts the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Tivoli Foundation have in mind for Erlanger Park, but we'd direct them to the wayback machine for a visit to 1982.
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Free Press Opinion: Rose urges pressure to abolish filibuster, pass Save America Act
U.S. Rep. John Rose, R-Cookeville, had one last thought on his mind before he left the newspaper office last week. And it had nothing — well, almost nothing — to do with his bid to be the next governor of Tennessee.
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Free Press Opinion: Court rulings don’t offer roadblocks yet on Tennessee redistricting map
As long as there are courts to hear them and appeals to be filed, the congressional redistricting map the Tennessee General Assembly passed in an extraordinary session earlier this month is not a sure thing.
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Free Press Opinion: Will ‘growing energy’ in Rose campaign pay off with primary upset?
It was late March, and most of the Tennessee congressional delegation was arrayed around President Donald Trump at his desk aboard Air Force One. They were flying back to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland from Memphis, where the president had gone to check out the Memphis Safe Task Force he had deployed.
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Free Press Opinion: Many years after annexation, Raccoon Mountain at goal line for water service
It would have been easy for Chattanooga City Council member Chip Henderson to have looked into the matter after he was initially elected in 2013 and told his constituents that it simply was a bridge too far to run a waterline up Raccoon Mountain to serve the limited number of houses there.
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Free Press Opinion: Hamilton County Schools’ digital device policy should be consistent but flexible
Until babies are implanted with an internet connectivity chip at birth — we jest, we jest — we suspect there will be discussions about the right amount students should be able to use digital devices in public schools.
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Free Press Opinion: Chattanooga family learns the rest of the story about uncle’s WWII connection
When Ruth Webb died in 2007, she thought the story on her late brother, Jack Clark, her only sibling, had been written.
