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Opinion: Chattanooga Free Press endorses Slater, Kelman, Ford in Hamilton County Board of Education races
For the first time in recent years, the majority of Hamilton County Board of Education seats up for grabs this year in the county general election on Aug. 1 are open. Out of the six races, only one incumbent is running.
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Opinion: With TDOT grant, North Hamilton County bridge clock starts again
The idea for a bridge spanning the Tennessee River between Soddy-Daisy and East Hamilton County has been around since the 1970s.
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Opinion: Clint’s Clips: Honors for Andrews’ Raiders members were a long time in coming
It's a pity it took 16 years after Union Pvts. Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson were approved as Medal of Honor recipients for them to be so honored.
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Opinion: The Ten Commandments again? Tennessee law is clear
On this day on which we celebrate our country's independence, we hear that a Tennessee legislator plans to introduce a bill in the next session of the General Assembly that would direct the state public schools to post the Ten Commandments in each classroom.
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Opinion: Ministers group misplace their protest against police chief’s departure
It seems to us a group of Black ministers protesting the indictment of former Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy stood at the wrong door Monday morning.
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Opinion: Hamilton County GOP chair warns against negative campaigning
The chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party has taken the unusual step of calling on individual county primary campaigns "to clean up their act."
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Opinion: Trump, Biden turn their debate into a national embarrassment
Observations from what surely was the worst and most embarrassing presidential debate in United States history:
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Opinion: Chattanooga police chief tenure ends with forgery, perjury charges, not her race or gender
Must it always be about race?
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Opinion: Hamilton County Schools resume incremental improvement in test scores after promise of 2023
When the Hamilton County Commission approved a near $100 million increase for Hamilton County Schools a year ago, an increase that funded 529 new positions, the intimation by the school district was that the increase would really move the needle.
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Opinion: VW future tied to UAW contract should alarm all stakeholders
It's one man's opinion, of course, but a report that the future of Chattanooga's Volkswagen rests on the upcoming labor contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) must be quite a stunning moment for all those who worked so hard to bring the manufacturing plant here in 2008.
