Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: Sheriff Garrett needs to do his job and stop playing politics
Back in February of 2024, Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett, instead of addressing real problems here, took a 1,200-mile trip to the Southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, to investigate the supposed danger of illegal immigration.
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Opinion: NIL doesn’t go far enough. NCAA athletes should be paid
We're in the midst of March Madness, and it's not just everyone's brackets that are busted.
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Opinion: We don’t have to cater to public opinion
Ever since President Donald Trump's election to a second term, the Democrats have become a party mired in an identity crisis.
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Opinion: We must not capitulate to MAGA
Earlier this month, Senate Democrats seemingly faced two bad options concerning the Republican spending measure: either let the government shut down or vote in lockstep with GOP senators on a bill that would surrender much more spending discretion to the executive branch.
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Opinion: The way we talk about mental health is wrong
Due to an expiration of federal funding, Hamilton County will end a program that once helped house and treat people who have frequently been incarcerated or hospitalized, the Times Free Press recently reported.
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Opinion: Do not take Bo Watson in good faith
Ever since President Donald Trump's election to a second term in November, Republicans have been determined to do all they can to use the power of the state to discriminate against immigrants.
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Opinion: The anti-union nonsense from Weston Wamp and the GOP
As Volkswagen and its unionized Chattanooga workers continue to negotiate a contract, the automotive company announced last week that it plans to reduce the plant's three-shift production down to two, a move that will reduce the 4,300 workforce by an amount Volkswagen has not yet specified.
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Opinion: NIMBYism is not the answer to gentrification
A decade ago, if someone were to walk down Main Street in Chattanooga's Southside neighborhood, they wouldn't see what they see today – a bustling commercial district with businesses, apartments and townhomes aligning either side of the street.
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Opinion: Here are the constituents Fleischmann won’t face
Amid a second Donald Trump administration unlawfully wreaking havoc on the federal administrative state — led by unelected billionaire bureaucrat Elon Musk — U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is nowhere to be found.
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Opinion: We can’t regulate PFAS with a small government
Ask the median voter their view on government, and more often than not, they'll say they want D.C. — or in Tennessee, it's Nashville — out of their lives. For many, the smaller the government, the better.
