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The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: The Chattanooga Lookouts stadium deal was a mistake
Baseball is back, and for the Chattanooga Lookouts, this season marks the first in a new stadium: Erlanger Park in the city's South Broad district.
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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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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.
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Community Voice: After $305M 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 over $400 billion, founded by one of the wealthiest men in the world, Larry Ellison (whose net worth is over $200 billion). Ellison maintains significant control of Oracle as their chief technical officer and chairman.
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Times Opinion: Budget reveals the Tennessee the GOP wants
When we think of politics, especially in this era animated by toxic polarization, we often imagine the empty theatrics and the divisive rhetoric.
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Times Opinion: Of course callous Sheriff Garrett’s office is using AI
Back in the days before artificial intelligence had seeped its way into many aspects of modern life, writing a letter, an essay, a story or even as something as simple as a routine email, if done well, required critical thought, attention to detail, clarity, conciseness and above all, a sensitivity toward its intended audience.
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Times Opinion: The Tennessee right’s perversion of free speech
In the United States, this supposed land of the free, there's hardly anything we cherish more than our right to freedom of speech — our right, within reason, to say whatever we want, whenever we want, without fear of government retaliation or repression.
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Times Opinion: Must the Tennessee MAGA be taken so seriously?
Over the past decade, the Make America Great Again movement has overtaken the Republican Party and earned the trust, for now, of its fervent base — a powerful yet minority coalition. The popular majority in opposition, fractured across numerous points of contention, has been stuck with the unfortunate task of reassembling the civic fabric torn by this toxic movement.
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Times Opinion: Let’s expel toxic right-wing politics from the Hamilton County Board of Education
Within national politics, we are living in a world dominated by a toxic political environment. While that is severely toned down at the local level, it does seep through into one realm: our schools.
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Times Opinion: Thessela White is the right choice for school board in District 5
Each candidate in the District 5 school board race, between Thessela White and Micah Chapman, has the credentials to help administer a better school system for students in Hamilton County. Unfortunately, only one will be sitting on the school board later this year.
