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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: Even in victory, North Georgia runoff spells doom for Republicans
The runoff in North Georgia, a contest to replace former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress, has come and gone, and a Republican, Clay Fuller, is headed to Washington, D.C. — but his relatively slim margin of victory signals an impending defeat for the Republican Party in the midterms later this year.
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Times Opinion: Trump’s culling of TVA begins
To say the least, President Donald Trump's second stint in the Oval Office has been mired in utter chaos. In East Tennessee, no other institution has been destabilized under this administration like the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Times Opinion: The GOP’s petty power game targets Chattanooga Airport
The political right, unlike its supposed nanny-state opposition on the left, has positioned itself as a democratizing force for small government, for the American tradition of self-governance.
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Times Opinion: Big money in politics makes progress in Tennessee impossible
Take a look at governmental policy and the public's broad position on any given issue, and you'll see a glaring disconnect.
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Times Opinion: To build a better democracy in Tennessee, Congress must reassert its authority
With the deep polarization among the American public, there are few, if any, points of agreement between the liberal and conservative camps when it comes to the state of our politics and what the future of this nation should be.
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Times Opinion: Hamilton County children pay the price for our toxic politics
With a civic life as corrosive as ours, there are varying groups who face undue consequences: immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, women and low-income individuals.
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Times Opinion: Bo Watson’s cynical ploy against immigrant schoolchildren
No matter your political persuasion, we all detest the slimy opportunistic politician — the one who will cast aside all principle and responsibility to the broader constituency to score points as if politics is a mere game, a chance to toy with the lives of those most vulnerable. Within the Hamilton County delegation, no one fits this bill quite like Bo Watson.
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Times Opinion: Trump’s posturing excursion to Tennessee touts alleged success in ‘Making America safe again’
President Donald Trump, the former reality TV star always in campaign mode, made a little excursion to Tennessee to tout his so-called success in "making America safe again."
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Times Opinion: Rampant AI mandates a cautious approach from Tennessee local governments
With a technology like AI, bound to have some type of lasting effect, its fate should be thoughtfully determined by democratic political processes, not by those who eye corporate profits above all else.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee is in desperate need of political reform
There is no denying it. Any impartial view of the modern American political system will recognize that, as a nation and as a state here in Tennessee, we are backsliding as a representative democracy to the point where it may no longer be precise to even call ourselves a republic.
