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The latest Free Press Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: Chattanooga helps to rescue One Westside
If you drive by downtown Chattanooga on U.S. Highway 27 and look to the opposite side of the expressway, you'd quickly notice a cleared lot where a former Youth and Family Development Center long stood.

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Opinion: Call for additional county budget hearings appears to be yet another unnecessary turf battle
Is this another turf battle?

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Opinion: Chattanooga City Council members must settle support staff scope — or skip decision this year
We have hinted from this page before that we'd like to see the Chattanooga City Council be a more active, and less reactive, body.

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Opinion: Trump Doctrine — Mind your business, we’ll mind ours
President Donald Trump redefined America's role in the world during his recent four-day trip to the Middle East.

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Opinion: Weekend Dialogue — Erlanger Park and remembering a local evangelic leader
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Opinion: Dalton teen’s arrest underscores urgent need for immigration law reforms
If ever a situation cried out for reform in United States immigration laws, it is the one involving the recent arrest of a 19-year-old Dalton woman.

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Opinion: Survey fleshes out culture importance of Moccasin Bend, but where to relocate hospital?
The reason to relocate the aging Moccasin Bend State Mental Health Institute only got stronger with full results of the 2024 state archaeological survey, but a relocation site for the complex still seems hazy at best.

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Opinion: City county must face an era of tighter government
Ah, the good ole days of 2021-2023, when so-called federal pandemic relief flowed into cities and counties and post-pandemic spending was strong.

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Opinion: Weekend Dialogue — Erlanger Park, waterfront plans and remembering Kay Arthur
Keep sending your questions, comments and opinions on my editorials and the other commentaries on this page (ccooper@timesfreepress.com).

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Opinion: Lee’s previous work with prisoners may be behind his veto of expanded parole board powers
The issue of prison reform always has been personal for Gov. Bill Lee.
