Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: Meeting time change for Hamilton County Commission is an inadequate half-measure
In our system of self-governance, it is vital that local municipalities are as transparent and accessible as possible.
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Times Opinion: The Christian right and its desperate attempts to indoctrinate Tennessee schoolchildren
Once again, the Christian nationalist wing of the Republican Party that has overtaken the Tennessee statehouse is exerting its political influence over the state's public education system.
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Times Opinion: The Trumpian Reaganomics behind the president’s TVA agenda
When looking at a government budget, there's a sympathetic tendency to focus on the biggest numbers: the six-figure salaries, the large-sum purchases, the costly upkeep.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee is creating a de facto secret police against immigrants
In America, the so-called land of the free, we proclaim to be a self-governed people.
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Times Opinion: In Tennessee, MAGA Republicans and so-called RINOs are one and the same
Since Donald Trump upended the right wing of American politics a decade ago, both his detractors and supporters within the Republican Party have sought to distinguish themselves via litmus tests based on loyalty and ideology.
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Times Opinion: Tennesseans pay the price for this arrogant war in Iran
Some things never change. Another generation, another war in the Middle East, another set of countless victims of the American empire overseas. And it will not be the warmongering rich and powerful bearing any responsibility; it will be ordinary people here at home who will pay the price for our arrogance.
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Times Opinion: Is Marjorie Taylor Greene’s MAGA-land in North Georgia about to go blue?
Short answer: highly doubtful. But there is something stirring among the voting public that spells doom for the Republican Party's short-term and long-term chances at maintaining the power created by its precarious MAGA coalition.
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Times Opinion: LGBTQ+ book bans? Here’s how Tennessee Republicans could actually help children
Seeing harm waged against Tennessee’s children, the state Republican Party has valiantly acted to neutralize this pervasive threat — that is, according to the paranoid delusions of an intolerant few.
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Times Opinion: Michele Reneau’s MAHA craze follows a long history of science denialism
When Michele Reneau upset incumbent Patsy Hazlewood in 2024's Republican primary for a local Tennessee House seat, she ran the standard right-flank playbook: RINO accusations and aggressive attack ads.
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Times Opinion: The human cost of gun violence in America
I love coaching basketball. Being around young people and helping them become the best versions of themselves is incredibly gratifying. But the job also offers a glimpse into how fragile it can all be. One injury, one bad break, a change in circumstances can shift everything for a player in a single moment.
