Editorials
The latest Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Free Press Editorials and Times Editorials.
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Readers write: City ambassador impresses celebrating couple
My wife and I visited Chattanooga for the first time Oct. 2-7. Among other things, we were celebrating our 40th anniversary. Everything was wonderful. One day we were having lunch at Bluegrass Grill at a communal table. We learned the young man sharing the table was local, born and bred, was a few days from his first anniversary. We exchanged stories about your fine city. After he left, we learned that he paid for our lunch and wished us a happy 40th. What an ambassador for your fine city. You should be proud of citizens like him. We'll never forget our first visit to Chattanooga.
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Letters to the editors: Lower-cost prescriptions are being threatened; Writer voting ‘yes’ on Amendment 1
How can Steven Hale in a recent TFP article say, with a straight face, that (Amendment 1) "will do nothing to keep us safe?"
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Free Press Editorial: Fleischmann remains in strong position with electorate
Democrats have challenged U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah, with a variety of candidates — lawyers, doctors and in 2024 even a moderate businessman — but to no avail.
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Local Opinion: Wall Street is buying Tennessee’s hospitals, but families are paying for it
When Tennessee families go to the hospital, the last thing on their mind is who owns the building or how much money an investment firm expects to make from their care. In that moment, they just want to know that they'll get the treatment they need without being left with a bill they can't afford.
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Free Press Editorial: Hagerty seems a lock for second term in Senate
He was considered twice for a Trump Cabinet selection and had been on his transition team. He was rumored as a Republican candidate for Tennessee governor. He is a sought-after guest on numerous daily political shows. But now, Bill Hagerty is a candidate for his second term in the United States Senate.
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Free Press Editorial: If interested, voters will find amendments on their ballot
Earlier this week, conspiracy theorists on the left began ginning up the idea that Tennessee election officials moved the constitutional amendment votes below the vote for governor on the November ballot to solicit more "yes" votes.
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Local Opinion: Voters losing hope with commission, school board leadership
Every single one of us is a consequence of our circumstances. Most of us would agree that everyone's circumstances are unique, even within family units.
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Ron Hart: Midterms: Democracy will be saved (until next cycle)
With the 2026 midterm elections now days away, the American political class has once again discovered that the fate of the republic hinges on a series of congressional races in districts most voters couldn't locate on a map if their Uber rating depended on it.
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National Opinion: Friday night college football heist leaves us poorer
Once upon a time in America, Friday nights in the fall were the sole domain of high school football. That epoch is history.
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Local Opinion: Trump shouldn’t turn justice into spectator sport
On Dec. 3, if President Donald Trump gets his way, Americans and people around the world will be able to pull out their phones and watch American soldiers shoot a condemned man to death.
