Editorials
The latest Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Free Press Editorials and Times Editorials.
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Deborah Levine: Reflecting on family, freedom and the future on July 4
Approaching July 4, I decided to ask folks what this day meant to them.
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Ron Hart: Happy 250th to the world’s longest running group project
It is Independence Day, a great American tradition which combines three things we like: eating, alcohol and fireworks. It is set against the pent-up tension of having to be around all your relatives in scorching heat with dubious potato salad.
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Free Press Opinion: Feds find more health care fraud. When will it end?
It shouldn't be too much to ask that taxpayer-funded social service programs benefit people who actually exist.
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Letters to the editors: Head of the Hooch worth keeping; taking on CVS prices and more
For more than two decades, the Head of the Hooch has become one of Chattanooga's signature events, bringing national visibility, thousands of visitors and an estimated $12 million annually to our community. It is a tradition worth preserving.
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Times Opinion: 19th century reformers made this country more equal, inclusive and strong
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal."
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Free Press Opinion: This July 4, let us rededicate ourselves to helping preserve the republic
America has much to celebrate this July 4, but also much to do. Even after 250 years, the task of conserving the republic given to us by our Founding Fathers is a never-ending struggle.
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Community Voice: Thirty years later, let’s honor 1996 Olympic Whitewater Center lost to fire
Thirty years ago this summer, a coalition of organizations including the U.S. Forest Service, the International Olympic Committee, TVA, the state of Tennessee and Polk County worked tirelessly to prepare the Ocoee River and its Whitewater Center to host canoe and kayaking events for the 1996 Olympic Games.
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Times Opinion: Let’s remember what we’re celebrating on July 4th
Happy 250th birthday to America and to all my fellow citizens. Let's celebrate!
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Times Opinion: From Ford to Trump — A contrast in anniversary celebrations
What a difference a half century has made.
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Times Opinion: Supreme Court lets Trump govern by decree on TPS
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court last week let President Donald Trump put another nail in the coffin of America's humanitarian asylum program and allowed him to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians in the country, who could now be sent back to life-threatening conditions abroad.
