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: Our view of the top stories for Chattanoogans in 2024
When the Times Free Press annually ask readers to help us select the top stories of the year, the newspaper routinely confines our list to stories from the metropolitan Chattanooga area and Tennessee.
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Opinion: School report card isn’t everything, but its findings shouldn’t be dismissed, either
If a majority of Hamilton County's 80 schools received A's on their state report card, would district officials still say the state report card is a pretty narrow way to look at schools? We hope one day to find out.
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Opinion: Soddy-Daisy decision to end fluoride was a two-month process
If U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary-designee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has his way about removing fluoride for the country's water systems, residents in Soddy-Daisy can say they were ahead of the curve.
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Opinion: Should caterers be forced to serve a same-sex wedding?
A business owner's right to make a business decision based on personal beliefs is a difficult line to walk today.
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Opinion: State’s weighty tie-in of end-of-course exams with final grades is lowered
Tennessee public high school students can breathe a slight sigh of relief knowing that their end-of-course exams next spring will no longer count as much as 25% of their final grade in their English, math, science or social studies.
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Opinion: Berz was passionate, dedicated on City Council and public and private work
Carol Berz was elected to Chattanooga City Council with only 29% of the vote in a special election in 2008, but nobody laid a glove on her after that.
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Opinion: $100 goes further here many places, but our buying power is slipping
We can all agree that a dollar doesn't buy what it used to, but a dollar certainly goes further in some places than it does in others.
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Opinion: Tennessee House may narrow number of bills most legislators can introduce
Of the nearly 3,000 bills introduced during the last two-year session of the Tennessee General Assembly, many were dead on arrival.
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Opinion: Cooper’s Corner – County data shows crime, drug overdoses are falling
The double scourge of crime and fatal overdoses in Hamilton County continue to decline as the COVID-19 pandemic gets more distant in the rearview mirror.
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Opinion: National media breathlessly worried about Trump loyalists, but what president doesn’t appoint them?
One can only chuckle at the hand-wringing from Democrats and the national media on President-elect Donald Trump's selections for his Cabinet and administration.
