Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: Trying to frame Comey, again — Seashells indictment is a laughable charge
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is pleasing President Donald Trump by supporting a ridiculous indictment of former FBI Director James Comey over a benign photo.
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Times Opinion: A better democracy in Tennessee requires an overhaul of the voting process
The American political process, as shown by the deep unpopularity of our elected officials, is plagued with fundamental flaws that all but ensure our representatives act against the majority will of the public.
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Times Opinion: After Supreme Court ruling, voting rights are under threat in Chattanooga
The U.S. Supreme Court has done it. By effectively striking down the Voting Rights Act of 1965, American representative democracy has been downgraded to a relic of a bygone era when this nation made a sincere attempt to realize its founding ideal of equality for all.
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Coolidge Park shooting, IHOP haircut, GPS training witches? and more Rants
I remember when the Coolidge Park carousel was safe and Frazier Avenue was dangerous.
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Community Voice: Two kings. Really?
Two days ago, the King of England came to Congress and schooled us on what it means to be American. This would be hysterical if it wasn't so tragic.
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Times Opinion: Jim Crow is about to be resurrected in Tennessee
We've all seen those infamous images from the early-20th century South that serve as a harrowing reminder of the Jim Crow era — the water fountains designated for "colored" people only, separate dining rooms for Black people in restaurants, white Southerners' violent resistance to public school integration in the 1950s.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee’s irrational love affair with AI data centers
As artificial intelligence seeps into more and more of our daily lives, this power-hungry technology, if its evangelists hope to maintain its staying power, necessitates the widespread use of energy-intensive data centers to fuel its operations.
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Times Opinion: The authoritarian right takes on Memphis public schools — Hamilton County could be next
Tennessee's GOP supermajority in the statehouse, always seeking to exert more and more power over the state's cities, has upped the authoritarian ante even further by targeting public education in Shelby County.
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Times Opinion: For democracy to work in Tennessee, local governments need more power
Throughout U.S. history, conservatism, depending on the time period, has taken differing forms and embedded itself, to varying extents, in numerous political parties.
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Times Opinion: Hamilton County GOP mailers are an anti-democratic attempt to further radicalize governance
Any honest assessment of the GOP supermajority governing Tennessee will conclude the party is on a dangerous right-wing trajectory, accelerated in recent years, that has produced radical and authoritarian public policies.
