Editorials
The latest Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Free Press Editorials and Times Editorials.
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Student essay: What is an American? One who uses what they have to build a better future
Close your eyes for a moment and think of the word "American." What do you see? Fireworks on the Fourth of July? Hot dogs and hamburgers? Red, white and blue?
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Local History: Kefauver campaigns hard for open Tennessee U.S. House seat
Within a week after announcing his candidacy for the 3rd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in early August 1939, Chattanooga attorney Estes Kefauver hit the road, speaking to crowds across the 12-county district. With only a month to campaign, the multiple appearances each day were critical.
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Readers respond: Becoming an American ‘the correct way’; Colbert opinion ‘like reading fiction’
What does it mean to be an American? It means that we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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Readers write: Enough with computers in schools, let students work their minds
Without being venomous, I would like to state what I see as some misconceptions about education. My history includes graduation from the UTC School of Education and 22 years in the Hamilton County system.
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Letters to the editors: Bike ride shows gas pipeline reality; guns and coal have long-term costs
Last month, Sierra Club Tennessee members rode 100 miles through eight counties along the Enbridge Ridgeline Pipeline, from Cummins Falls State Park to the TVA Kingston plant in Roane County.
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Letters to the editors: Don’t let U.S. regress into ‘the old country’; where are checks on White House?
I am nostalgic for the 1990s and the charming, straightforward scandals from the Clinton White House such as Whitewater. Bill and Hillary slipped off the hook and paid their own lawyers.
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Missing Kennedy’s columns, skatepark money could be better used and more Rants
Many times I have bought the Sunday paper just to read Mark Kennedy's column. It will be missed by many, many Chattanoogans.
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Times Opinion: Who would dream of letting the NFL judge its own racism?
Just one of the nine Supreme Court justices thought it was appropriate for Roger Goodell — whose primary job as NFL commissioner is to protect the league — to decide whether the NFL's hiring practices are still racist.
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Times Opinion: DOJ’s E. Jean Carroll probe the latest in Trump’s despotic quest for vengeance
Continuing President Donald Trump's abuse of government power against his perceived enemies, his hatchet men in the Justice Department have reportedly launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit American Future Republic, run by LinkedIn cofounder billionaire Reid Hoffman.
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Good Deed: Missionary Ridge area school administrators pack supplies, snacks to donate
School may be out for the summer, but local administrators haven't stopped serving their communities.
