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: Hamilton County showing good trend numbers for first nine months of year, but will they last?
With three months to go in 2023, property crime in Hamilton Count was down more than 20% from 2022 and violent crime down more than 2%.
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Opinion: A new twist on voter suppression: Convincing people their vote doesn’t count, so why bother
Voting is a matter of patriotism, state Rep. Greg Martin, R-Hixson, says.
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Opinion: Will we someday wonder why we didn’t curb antisemitism in the United States in the 2020s?
Antisemitism in the United States, historians have concluded, made it easier for Germany to carry out the Holocaust of Jews beginning in the late 1930s and for the U.S. to, if not look the other way, at least play down what was happening.
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Opinion: Survey results from Westside residents should offer confidence for city to move forward to seek housing grant
Sixty years ago, many minority residents of Chattanooga lost their homes as interstate highways were completed in and around downtown.
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Opinion: Clint’s Clips/Pondering electric vehicles, Swifites and the crankiest state in the country
What is the actual per-gallon equivalent cost of driving an electric vehicle for 10 years? According to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which did the research, it's $17.34 per gallon.
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Opinion: After another mass shooting, why not at least do something at intersection of guns and mentally ill?
Forget the usual folly about eliminating the Second Amendment to the Constitution, banning this gun or that gun, or enacting a package of "common-sense" gun regulations. They're not going to happen.
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Opinion: Time to replace Riverbend with something more relevant
Some people will see it as a betrayal, some as a cop-out, some as a failure.
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Opinion: School board should reconsider cancelled June 2024 field trip
Student safety always should be a primary factor in decision-making by Hamilton County Board of Education members, but we wonder if basing what might be happening in June 2024 on what is happening today is premature.
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Opinion: For us to feel safe, all of Chattanooga needs to feel safe
For the great majority of those who live here, Chattanooga is a safe city.
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Opinion: Eye on the left: No majority, no problem
How would you like to have your city run by someone who got the support of just over a quarter of voters and whose support by a percentage of all eligible voters was much, much smaller?
