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: Free Press readers pick their favorite book from 2025
By the time you read this, I will be well into one of the 20 or so books I received for Christmas from loved ones who know my predilections.

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Free Press Weekend Dialogue: Blackburn has taken various stances on AI regulation
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who wants to be Tennessee's next governor, has, it seems to us, been all over the waterfront on how to handle artificial intelligence.

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Free Press Opinion: School district-CNE cottage partnership could be a teacher sweetener
As Hamilton County Board of Education members acknowledged last week, there is a lot to consider before the school board gets into the landlord business.

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Free Press Opinion: Strengthen career and technical education toward today’s skilled, family-wage jobs
A new Beacon Center report suggests there remains a disconnect between the state's K-12 education and the Tennessee economy.

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Free Press Weekend Dialogue: School board policy will force developers, governments to consider infrastructure
The Hamilton County Board of Education placed school capacity right where it ought to be Thursday night — in the middle of any discussion about infrastructure.

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Free Press Opinion: Trump’s address won’t alleviate ‘affordability’ concerns; 2026 will (or not)
President Donald Trump's prime time speech to the American people Wednesday night was everything his supporters might have wanted — and everything his detractors might have expected.

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Free Press Opinion: With social media and Trump’s poor example, can we tame our tongues?
Most of us grew up with advice that went something like this: If you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all.

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Free Press Opinion: Let Club America chapters be student, not state, backed
If every Hamilton County school had a Turning Point USA chapter because every school wanted a chapter, we'd say have at it.

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Free Press Opinion: Walnut Street Bridge never saw predicted demise, but we can’t preserve everything
Fifty years ago this week, in putting the final touches on its 1976 budget, the Chattanooga City Commission made it official by including money for studies for a new downtown bridge across the Tennessee River.

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Free Press Weekend Dialogue: ACT scores have made little progress and more
Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Dr. Justin Robertson put the expected spin on the district's 2025 ACT score earlier this week, but the truth is county students haven't made much progress on the national standardized test in nearly a decade and a half.
