Free Press Editorials
The latest Free Press Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Free Press Opinion: ‘We The People’ largely left out of legislature’s extraordinary redistricting process
It was extraordinary, all right.
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Free Press Opinion: Poll gives Blackburn commanding lead in Republican gubernatorial race
Eight years ago this week, the Grassroots Targeting poll gave U.S. Rep. Diane Black an edge of 15 percentage points (41% to 26%) over runner-up Randy Boyd, a businessman and former Cabinet member of Gov. Bill Haslam, in the race to be the Republican nominee for Tennessee's next governor.
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Free Press Opinion: Turner’s top local contribution might be Braves telecasts
McCallie School, of which Ted Turner was an alum, might disagree, and devotees of CNN, which Turner founded, might dispute it, but we think the media mogul's biggest contribution to Chattanooga might be his purchase of the Atlanta Braves in 1976 and his cable television station's broadcast of most every game into homes in the Scenic City and across North America.
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Free Press Opinion: New athletics rule gives school district an opportunity to think about changes
The landscape of public education is shifting.
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Free Press Opinion: With Supreme Court cover, lawmakers will reengineer Tennessee districts — because they can
Tennessee legislators will begin meeting today in a special session of the General Assembly to rejigger the state's nine congressional districts -- because they can.
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Free Press Opinion: A dose of tough medicine that the nation needs
In one respect, the soaring national debt is a lot like the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it.
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Free Press Opinion: King Charles reminds Americans of partnership with Great Britain
Most Americans think of the Bill of Rights as a bespoke 1789 creation for a nation that was, in the signature "Hamilton" lyric of Lin-Manuel Miranda, "young, scrappy and hungry."
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Free Press Opinion: State Executive Committee race brewing amid local GOP divide
If you're like most Hamilton County voters, when you come to a choice for Republican (or Democratic) State Executive Committeeman or Committeewoman, you vote for someone you know, someone you've heard of or perhaps you just skip the category altogether.
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Free Press Opinion: Laws will allow, not force, prayers at meetings and Ten Commandments in schools
To reuse an overused phrase, we think you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
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Free Press Opinion: American blockade ramps up the pressure on Iran
Iran is again playing the four-corners stall game with its latest peace proposal -- a sign that American leverage is paying off. President Donald Trump and the United States should continue to put maximum pressure on the regime to exacerbate the Iranian economy's free-fall.
