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: If it helps two or 2,200, why not add Hamilton County to state’s voucher program for schools?
Does it matter whether two students or 2,200 students are involved in the Tennessee Education Savings Account program if they get a better education than they would have in their nearest public school?
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Opinion: Reactions to Memphis stop, student video examples of our out-of-proportion society
Today's $64,000 question is how we as Americans can regain the sense of proportion we once seemed to have over how to frame our thoughts and reactions over an issue.
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Opinion: Good idea this week, but in hindsight a Super Bowl Monday holiday seems a bit excessive
If the full Tennessee state Senate and state House could vote this Friday, they might be willing to pass a bill filed in the legislature that would make Super Bowl Monday a holiday instead of Columbus Day in October.
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Opinion: Fleischmann’s Cherokee Lands Act passes U.S. House for fourth time, but will Senate act?
Will the fourth time be the charm?
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Opinion: Tennessee lawmakers revisit 3rd grade retention law
Hand-wringing continues across the state as school administrators, teachers and parents consider what will happen if the state's new third-grade reading retention law prevents thousands of students from moving on to fourth grade this year.
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Opinion: Closing restraint loophole for students with disabilities or inviting discipline fallback
The image of a child with disabilities being shackled to prevent them from harming themselves or others sounds like an image one might see in a 19th-century illustration. But that reality soon will be debated in the Tennessee General Assembly.
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Opinion: Limited exceptions to Tennessee’s abortion ban are necessary
Lawmakers in at least 13 states that have banned abortions are grappling with whether to leave the bans in place or determine in what cases exceptions would be allowed.
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Opinion: Easing Ooltewah traffic snarls necessary for future Hamilton County growth and development
Hamilton County Commissioner Steve Highlander knows he can't snap his fingers and solve the traffic problems around the Ooltewah exit on Interstate 75, but he wanted to be sure county legislative delegation members kept the snarl on their minds as they headed to Nashville for this year's legislative session.
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Opinion: Fentanyl deaths abound as legislature asked to consider overdose fatality review groups
A presentation to the Hamilton County legislative delegation last week on the need to support the Overdose Fatality Review Act included some stark statistics such as the approximate 14% climb in Hamilton County drug overdose deaths from 2021 to 2022.
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Opinion: Memphis, state reforms were no help to Nichols in police beating death
On Friday night, the world was able to witness what up until then only Memphis police and law enforcement officials had seen — the vicious beating three weeks ago of a Memphis man in custody by five officers, who have now been fired and charged.
