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Opinion: The fundamental disagreement over raising taxes
At a typical Chattanooga City Council meeting, as with the assembly of most governing bodies, the biting conflict pervasive in our modern politics is absent. The work of government is, oftentimes, procedural and predictable. Some deride it as rubber-stamping.
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Opinion: Tennessee leads against antisemitism
Tennessee is a leading state for laws and policies dealing with antisemitism, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Antisemitism has been a focus of the ADL since it was founded in 1913 by the cultural association called B'nai Brith (Children of the Covenant), whose mission was to serve and protect Jewish immigrants, many of whom came to America to escape European and Russian persecution. Hate and antisemitism were rampant there, and here, too.
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Opinion: Ukraine got a reprieve in Washington — not an escape
In the 1963 war movie "The Great Escape," 76 prisoners make it out of their camp in what begins with hope and elation, but ends with all but a handful killed or recaptured. Monday's meeting between the U.S. and its worried Ukrainian and European allies felt a little like those first exhilarating moments of escape, as the meeting passed off better than anyone could have expected in the wake of Russia's clear diplomatic win in Alaska.
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Opinion: What Trump is really up to in Washington
You do not need the strongest powers of observation to see that crime is a pretext — and not the main reason — for the military occupation of Washington, D.C., by federal agents and soldiers from the National Guard.
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Keep our private lives private, please and more letters to the editors
Keep our private lives private, please
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Opinion: Trump’s autocratic turn to the arts
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump, as part of his attempted authoritarian takeover of our constitutional government, has spent his second term attacking various long-standing institutions, all in an effort to remake civic life under his exclusive vision.
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Opinion: Trump reshapes history while we’re not looking
Some of President Donald Trump's ill-advised actions would be more shocking if there weren't so many of them.
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Opinion: 10 ways to force Putin back to the bargaining table
Vladimir Putin came to Alaska and got the red-carpet treatment. While expectations were low for a full ceasefire, most observers were hoping for at least a path to negotiations.
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City leaders: Rethink property tax hike
City leaders: Rethink property tax hike
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Opinion: Flooding like this should be politicized
Last Tuesday seemed like any other day in Chattanooga. That is, until a routine evening summer storm turned into torrential rainfall, pouring nearly 6.5 inches of water onto a localized area over a three-hour period -- the second most Chattanooga has seen in a single day since 1879.
