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: Local metro government push in 1964 would have created a body with 12 district representatives and six at-large members
Sixty years ago this week, on the same day Nashville was swearing in the 40 members of its Metropolitan Council for the first time, the Metropolitan Government Charter Commission here was determining the size of its proposed council.
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Opinion: Clock ticking in state and nation for Chinese video platform Tik Tok?
If you know who Khaby Lame and Charli D'Amelio are, we know how you spend your day. And we don't need algorithms to figure it out.
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Opinion: Chickamauga Lock replacement taking longer to build than Taj Mahal and Buckingham Palace
This is no way to run a government
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Opinion: State Senate should take measured route of House on abortions exceptions
No doctor in Tennessee has been charged yet for performing an abortion after the state's 2019 near ban went into effect last year. That's the good news.
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Opinion: Blackburn sounds partisan in public, but bipartisan legislation suggests she’s trying to get things done in D.C.
Is she a Republican attack dog, a Democrats' poodle or just playing politics the way it must done in Washington, D.C.?
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Opinion: Devastating flood 50 years ago this weekend would have been much worse without TVA
Fifty years ago today, Chattanoogans were drying out from what has since been described as a 100-year flood.
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Opinion: Hamilton County school board wrangles with hiring more ‘coaches’ to help students with social, emotional and academic development
SEAD (social, emotional and academic development) coaches should not be added to the next year's schools' budget unless Hamilton County Board of Education members can agree on what the coaches will do, how many of them there will be and whether they'll make a difference in student performance.
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Opinion: Tennessee lawmakers give term limits a fair hearing but Chattanooga City Council serves up only silence
On the day after the Chattanooga City Council failed to second Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod's proposal to discuss term limits and move the date for city elections, the Tennessee House State Government Committee passed a joint resolution calling for states to propose a congressional term limits amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Opinion: Tennessee gun bill supporters want everything, everywhere all at once
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" was the Best Picture winner in Sunday's 95th Academy Awards, but it also appears to describe what some Tennessee legislators want the state's gun policies to be.
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Opinion: Bill in state legislature would prevent relatively recent ‘double-dipping’ of government officials
With respect to the two people in Hamilton County currently serving on the Hamilton County Commission and on elected boards of local municipalities, we hope a bill currently moving through the Tennessee General Assembly that would prohibit anyone from serving on both county and municipal government boards eventually will become law.
