Editorials
The latest Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Free Press Editorials and Times Editorials.
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Happy 250th, save Head of the Hooch, Tennessee socialism and more Rants
Celebrate our 250th birthday, USA, an unfinished experiment. Despite our flaws, we have power to protect democracy, champion liberty, and build a better future TOGETHER!
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Times Opinion: How to win the fight against Ebola
When the World Health Organization declared the West African Ebola epidemic a global emergency in 2014, I sat with my wife, Julie, and said aloud what both of us were thinking: People needed to step forward to fight the virus. As an ER nurse, I had the training; I had the experience. If not me, then who?
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Faith Focus: Happy 250th, America, and thank you for being you
It was predictable, really, that my weekly "A few early morning pics from CBC" on my Pastor Bo Wagner Facebook page this past Sunday drew scrutiny and criticism. Any time I ever post anything showing symbols of America, it happens.
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Birth tourism, Rock City’s transparency and more letters to the editors
For all my dear friends ripping their hair out over the SCOTUS "birthright" decision: Take a deep breath, get a nice cold beer and watch a good baseball game.
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State immigration checks, World Cup fun, Fleischmann funding and more Rants
I've written a few rants to the Chattanooga Times Free Press because I love America and I cannot tolerate what's happening under Donald John Trump.
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Times Opinion: Birthright citizenship ruling was a win for democracy — and a warning about erasing history
This week's narrow Supreme Court decision protecting birthright citizenship is rightly being hailed as a triumph for the American experiment.
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Times Opinion: Happy 250th to a battered but beautiful America
Perhaps the most evocative tune in America's patriotic repertoire, and certainly the most popular, is also among the least understood. Written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1893, "America the Beautiful" will be sung out at countless parades and picnics and parties on the country's 250th anniversary this July 4. Amid divisive times, it offers a hopeful and fitting rejoinder.
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Free Press Opinion: Can we survive to celebrate America’s 300th birthday?
Two hundred and 50 years ago, self-evident truths meant something.
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Times Opinion: Homelessness just declined in the US. Trump’s plans will take us backward
In June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finally released the long-awaited homelessness numbers for 2025, revealing a 3.3% decrease in overall homelessness between January 2024 and January 2025.
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Times Opinion: The transgender sports decision was about something deeper than law
Read the Supreme Court's recent ruling on transgender athletes — the majority's decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the dissent, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor — and you will see the court arguing about something more fundamental than the law.
