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Times Opinion: The long-term ramifications of a Trump-corrupted TVA
Since President Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office, his haphazard transformation of the national government has created an unprecedented level of bureaucratic chaos across numerous federal agencies — leaving Americans needlessly vulnerable to an assortment of threats.
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Free Press Opinion: Blackburn’s confidence allows her to make ‘blue policies’ comment
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, has found herself getting the Trump treatment over the last few days after a social media post last week.
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Times Opinion: Prediction markets are a gamble we can’t afford
When will the U.S. government confirm that aliens exist? How many people will fall ill with measles this year? Will President Donald Trump be impeached?
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Times Opinion: From sandwich shops to Silicon Valley, noncompetes are holding back US workers
Noncompete agreements, once reserved for executives with unique access to trade secrets, have gone mainstream in America.
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Free Press Opinion: Why aren’t Americans working as hard as they used to?
I came across a statistic the other day that goes against the intuition of practically everyone in the U.S. who has a job: Americans are working less than they did in the 1950s and '60s. How is this possible, when we all feel chained to our desks or our phones?
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Community Voice: After $305 million in Tennessee tax breaks, this billionaire lays off 30,000 workers
On April 1, Oracle fired 30,000 workers via email at 6 a.m. Oracle is a corporation worth more than $400 billion, founded by one of the wealthiest men in the world, Larry Ellison (whose net worth is more than $200 billion).
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Community Voice: Women in Chattanooga trusted to do the work, not always trusted to lead
I grew up in Chattanooga watching my mother become one of the top doctors in the city in the 1980s.
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Times Opinion: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán was called ‘Trump before Trump.’ Will the president also follow him in defeat?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose illiberal right-wing policies have served as a template for President Donald Trump's second term, was roundly defeated last Sunday.
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Free Press Opinion: Gardenhire, Sexton have war of words over failure of ‘three strikes’ bill
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, evidently thought his "three strikes" sentencing bill would find little opposition on its way to a signature by Gov. Bill Lee.
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Times Opinion: As long as gerrymandering exists, true democracy in Tennessee will remain out of reach
Democracy is a simple, yet elusive, concept: The people, in an expression of self-governance, choose leaders to form a government in the public's best interest, or else face expulsion come next election.
