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: Budgetel nearing a time when it could reopen; did its closing do some a favor?
What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to you?
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Opinion: (Yawn) … Yet another impeachment resolution may be filed against Biden by Majorie Taylor Greene
Anybody ready for another impeachment trial?
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Opinion: Votes on Chattanooga City Council, Hamilton County Commission this week show how politics makes strange bedfellows
When the proposal to transfer $250,000 in funds from the Hamilton County Health Department to hybrid-funded Clínica Médicos was discussed during the Hamilton County Commission meeting last week, it drew a few minor questions but mostly only praise for the work the clinic does.
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Opinion: Tennessee takes lead in protecting a private vote for union organization
A private election, whether it be to choose a president of the United States or representation by a union at a workplace, seems like a no-brainer.
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Opinion: Wilkey case catastrophic failure, prosecutorial miscalculation or somewhere in between?
If former Hamilton County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Wilkey did anything wrong criminally to account for a 44-count indictment filed against him in 2019, the fact that all charges in the indictment were dismissed against him in Criminal Court Friday stand as a catastrophic failure.
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Opinion: Support our democracy by teaching social studies
"Don't know much about history" is the first line of Sam Cooke's 1960 song standard "Wonderful World," but it increasingly also describes the average K-12 public school student in the United States.
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Opinion: A mother’s love, not sexual orientation, should be focus of Mother’s Day lesson
If a Mother's Day lesson plan for students between the ages of 5 and 8 at a Hamilton County elementary school included instructional material that dealt with the sexual orientation of parents -- unless that instructional material is only used as informative background by a teacher or librarian -- the school district has deeper problems than what books are used in the lesson plan.
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Opinion: Reappropriating unspent funds just before budget shouldn’t become a practice
A resolution to transfer $250,000 in funds that will not be used by the Hamilton County Health Department to fund an expansion at the privately owned Clinica Médicos appeared to have the support of nearly half of county commissioners Wednesday, but we would not recommend such end-of-year funds transfers as a practice.
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Opinion: Legislators should hear from constituents about gun safety before special session in August
No bills about abortion, transgenders, library books and drag shows will be on the agenda. No budget will need approval. And, importantly, no election will take place for another year.
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Opinion: Consideration of BlueCross property for schools at least is thinking ahead
Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp likes to talk about a promise made three decades ago when Kirkman Technical High School closed that its legacy would live on.
