Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: On gerrymandering, Democrats must fight fire with fire
Ahead of the midterm elections later this year, a mid-decade redistricting battle between Republicans and Democrats has ensued over who can out-gerrymander the opposition.
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Times Opinion: As his pro-gerrymandering vote shows, Todd Gardenhire is no maverick
Amid the torrent of lies and bad-faith pearl-clutching, the Republican Party, especially its ascendant MAGA arm, can at times reveal a strain of truth that makes its anti-democratic intentions plain for all to see.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee and the South are not conservative monoliths
Take a look at an Electoral College map for any presidential election over the past several decades, and you'll see, aside from a few outliers, a big sea of red in the South.
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Times Opinion: A metro government in Hamilton County would enhance local democracy
If you take a stroll down M.L. King Boulevard or any other street in downtown Chattanooga, most of the public services surrounding you — the roads, the bicycle lanes, the police car on patrol, the sidewalk beneath your feet — are under the jurisdiction of the Chattanooga city government and funded through its tax system.
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Times Opinion: Will Weston Wamp ever stop pointing the finger?
Looking at the past few elections, one thing is clear. The tide is turning against the Republican Party. Local elections in Hamilton County are no exception.
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Times Opinion: In new AI law, GOP sees itself as the sole arbiter of human rights
With the advent of artificial intelligence, especially AI chatbots, numerous issues with the technology pose great social and political harms: diminished academic integrity, environmental degradation from power-intensive AI data centers, deepfake political advertisements and so on.
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Times Opinion: Homelessness in Chattanooga is the fault of us all, not the individual
Whenever social crises become too visible to ignore, there's an enticing temptation to lay the blame on the victim instead of pointing to the true culprit: an inequitable system of governance that routinely fails to respond to issues of public concern. This is perhaps most apparent when it comes to the worsening issue of homelessness.
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Voters, stick to your own parties in primary and more letters to the editors
It's been interesting to observe the controversy stirred by a recent mailer from the Hamilton County GOP regarding who should be voting in the primary election.
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Times Opinion: Promoting civic literacy for America’s 250th
We Americans have always felt anxious about our democracy.
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Times Opinion: The loneliness of Donald Trump
This was the third such attempt in roughly two years. The first was in 2024 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the president -- then still a candidate -- sustained some injuries. The next attempt took place the same year, this time at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the would-be assassin was stopped before he could get close. And then we have this most recent incident, at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington.
