Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: If city workers can live in Memphis, why not Rossville?
In Chattanooga, if one wants to work for city government, they can live anywhere in Tennessee – all the way west in Memphis if one chooses to do so.
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Opinion: Chattanooga Times endorses Jennifer Gregory, Anna Golladay and Ron Elliott in Chattanooga City Council Districts 6, 8 and 9
Our final batch of Chattanooga City Council endorsements, in the ongoing municipal elections, are in, this time for Districts 6, 8 and 9.
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Opinion: Henderson, Davis, Clark endorsed in Chattanooga City Council Districts 1, 3 and 5
Early voting for Chattanooga's municipal elections is underway, and the Chattanooga Times has made decisions on endorsements for the City Council and mayoral races, as well as a referendum on lifting the requirement for city workers to live within Tennessee's state borders.
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Opinion: We are a people consumed by fear
Imagine sitting around a campfire, enjoying the company of close friends, when a menacing tiger bursts from the woods, ready to devour.
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Opinion: Sessoms’ Soapbox – We must keep an eye on Weston Wamp’s DOGE effort
Over the past few weeks since President Donald Trump's inauguration, tech mogul billionaire Elon Musk, at the behest of the president, has used his non-department Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to ransack numerous federal agencies within the D.C. bureaucracy with no regard for the Constitution or the rule of law.
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Opinion: The hard truth about homelessness
Talk to anyone who frequents downtown Chattanooga, and aside from gushing over the scenic views of the mountainous landscape and the Tennessee River, they're sure to complain about one thing above all: homelessness, especially the increasing visibility of the people experiencing it in the city's urban core.
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Opinion: Like the right, the left should tap into religion
The current right-wing movement dominating our politics, one led by President Donald Trump that seeks to reshape America into its image at all costs, did not form overnight. Any attempt to stop this political upheaval, to redirect this country toward a better future won't materialize quickly either.
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Opinion: Sessoms’ Soapbox – History will remember Republican politicians as cowards
On Thursday, Chattanoogans joined protests, seen throughout the country, against Elon Musk's lawless takeover of various agencies within the federal government.
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Opinion: There’s only one thing driving the GOP’s attack on immigration
Just a few weeks into the ongoing legislative session, it is not hyperbole to say the GOP supermajority in the Tennessee General Assembly is waging an all-out war on immigration.
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Opinion: Unless you bow down, the GOP doesn’t care about you
This past election, Republican state Rep. Greg Martin was re-elected to his district with a resounding 62% of votes, seemingly sending the message that District 26 is demanding the GOP's legislative agenda: less gun restrictions, more measures against abortion and a robust crackdown on unauthorized immigration.
