Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: News stories to keep an eye on in 2025
It's 2025 and with it, another 365 days -- another 365 news cycles, almost all of which we are certain to memory hole by 2026.
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Opinion: Sessoms’ Soapbox – Tennessee’s budding theocracy
With each passing day, it seems the Tennessee state legislature is well on its way to replacing the state constitution with the Bible as our supreme governing document, at least the parts our betters in Nashville deem most conveniently align with their right-wing ideology.
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Opinion: On immigration, we must not negotiate on the far right’s terms
Months after the GOP supermajority in the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law that requires law enforcement to identify immigrants known to be unauthorized to the proper authorities — a bill that state Sen. Todd Gardenhire voted against — the Republican senator of Chattanooga has offered to amend the legislation.
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Opinion: Chattanooga’s biggest news stories of 2024
The New Year is around the corner, and it's time to reflect on 2024's biggest news stories in Chattanooga.
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Opinion: Sessoms’ Soapbox – State legislature geared to go after trans adults
After enacting a law in 2023 that restricts gender-affirming care for transgender youth — legislation that is currently being litigated by the U.S. Supreme Court — the Tennessee state legislature appears to be at it again.
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Opinion: Curbing climate change requires immediate action at all levels of government
We're nearing the end of 2024 — a year with an active hurricane season that saw tropical storm force winds from Helene devastate Western North Carolina and Northeast Tennessee — and yet we face another climate disaster here in the Chattanooga region: extreme drought.
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Opinion: Tennessee’s school voucher money would be better spent on public education
As a new Tennessee General Assembly is set to be sworn in over the coming weeks, the first bill for the new legislative session has already been filed, and it's another effort, after failing last session, from GOP Gov. Bill Lee to pour millions in public dollars into private schools across the state.
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Opinion: Pizzeria’s refusal to cater gay weddings is about bigotry, not beliefs
Before this week, many had never heard of Red Bank's Pizzeria Cortile, but after the restaurant confirmed its refusal to cater gay weddings, amid Reddit-fueled hearsay, the pizza maker finds itself in the local spotlight, garnering staunch criticism, rightly so, for its blatant homophobia.
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Opinion: The GOP attack on public education
Since his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, President-elect Donald Trump, as part of his numerous attacks on public education, has pledged to abolish the U.S. Department of Education during his second term, a move, supported by many local Republicans, that would spell doom for the most vulnerable public school students.
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Opinion: Choice is not the driving force behind school vouchers
When politicians, pundits and parents speak in support of public funding toward private K-12 academies via school vouchers, they use one word above all to sell it to the public — choice.
