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: Biden, Coonrod cases unrelated but offer parallels in cases involving public figures
On Tuesday in a courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware, Hunter Biden — son of the president of the United States — was found guilty on three gun charges, while 658 miles away in a courtroom in Hamilton County, Chattanooga Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod was found innocent — in a manner of speaking — of residency fraud.
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Opinion: With 1994 GOP sweep now 30 years in rear view mirror, has Republican wave crested?
Thirty years ago this summer, something was brewing in Hamilton County.
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Opinion: TCAP scores not released, but fewer summer reading program users must mean crisis averted, or does it?
Three years ago, it was a crisis. Today, the crisis seems to have been forgotten.
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Opinion: Clint’s Clips: Marriage revelation makes Coonrod case ‘curiouser and curiouser’
As Alice said in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," things are getting "curiouser and curiouser."
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Opinion: Fowler’s family policy organization, local Moms for Liberty group make SPLC’s hate map
The Southern Poverty Law Center, once a Montgomery, Alabama, public interest law firm that has morphed into what one author called a "left-wing smear factory," has added to its "Hate Map" a family policy council run by a former Chattanooga state senator.
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Opinion: Tennessee bars minors from accessing online porn without age verification
On Jan. 1, thanks to a bill sponsored in the Tennessee House by Signal Mountain Republican Patsy Hazlewood, it will be a felony for minors to access online adult content without age verification.
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Opinion: Wamp’s proposal for public education shows two can use numbers to make a point
For several months, Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Dr. Justin Robertson has been telling anyone who would listen how the school district's share of property tax revenue has declined more than 10% over the past 15-plus years.
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Opinion: City’s new warning system provides a way around bottleneck railroad crossings
"[I]t is odds on that sooner or later someone is going to die while stopped at the Hamill Road [railroad] crossing," a Times Free Press letter to the editor read in 2001.
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Opinion: Trump’s unremarkable verdicts
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of a former president of the United States being found guilty on 34 felony counts in a court of law is that it is so unremarkable.
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Opinion: More prisons aren’t the solution to stricter bail laws
"If we need to build more prisons," Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville said recently, "we can."
