Free Press Editorials
The latest Free Press Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: Chattanooga Free Press endorses Chip Baker in Hamilton County Commission District 2
In the last five Hamilton County Commission elections dating back to 2006, at least one incumbent has lost a primary race. Will that streak extend to six?
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Free Press Opinion 50 years after Minor League Baseball returned to city, Lookouts head to Erlanger Park
Erlanger Park, the new home of the Chattanooga Lookouts, will open Tuesday night.
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Free Press Opinion: Where is the sweet spot for school nutrition, cost, taste and additives?
The Tennessee state legislature ought to be careful what it wishes for if it passes a bill establishing a nutrition task force to evaluate the prevalence of of ultra-processed foods in public school meal programs.
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Free Press Opinion: Trump’s Easter screed is a new low — even for him
In the world of journalism, if you've been around long enough, you've heard mayors spew foul language, ministers show you photos of naked clergy, coaches berate players as if they were the scum of the earth, and county officials gossip about their brethren and sistren.
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Free Press Opinion: A tax increase every year? What could go wrong?
Tax increases every year! What could be more inviting?
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Free Press Opinion: Trump may wish he had Bush’s success in 2002 election
President Donald Trump has never had much good to say about former President George W. Bush, but we're sure he wishes he were in the same position as the younger Bush in 2002.
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Free Press Opinion: Banning trans women in Olympics was the right decision to make
The above wasn't the 37th president's comment upon signing the Education Amendments Act of 1972, which included Title IX, which prohibited sexual discrimination in any institution receiving federal funding, but it might have been.
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Free Press Opinion: Bills seek power from local governments for airports, underground permitting, tourist zones
If the government closest to the people governs best, Tennessee Republicans have a funny way of showing that.
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Free Press Opinion: Ten Commandments bills waiting for debate in Tennessee legislature
The bill suggests the Ten Commandments be posted in schools alongside such documents as the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Tennessee Constitution, a resolution honoring the history of a school (or the public charter), or "other historically significant documents."
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Free Press Opinion: Community still senses obligation to continue funding our parks, 50 years later
Fifty years ago this week, Chattanooga city commissioners were discussing a new downtown park that would be the first such major project for the area in decades.
