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The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: To rid ourselves of Republican policy, elect Mark Herndon
No matter your politics, most of us will acknowledge that Hamilton County has problems: unaffordable housing, high grocery prices, opaque government, inadequate public services and more.
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Times Opinion: A democracy, if we can keep it
"A republic, if you can keep it," Benjamin Franklin famously responded when asked by a Philadelphia socialite what it was that he and the other founders had wrought.
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Times Opinion: Hamilton County data center moratorium doesn’t go far enough
As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, the technology has sparked widespread protest among Republicans, Democrats and the public at large, politically engaged or not.
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Times Opinion: Even in this dark present on America’s 250th, the past and a better future still worth celebrating
On July 5, 1852, when the barbaric institution of slavery still plagued this land, Frederick Douglass, a prominent Black abolitionist born a slave, delivered one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
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Times Opinion: Chattanooga’s response to immigration crackdown is inadequate
Now well into year two of President Donald Trump's second term, his promised mass deportation campaign has only been ramped up — leaving millions of immigrants in this country, including those in Chattanooga and Tennessee, vulnerable to this cruel xenophobic machine.
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Times Opinion: There’s a lesson to learn in Tennessee from Keir Starmer’s resignation
The United Kingdom is a much different place than the United States, both politically and culturally. While many may try and make connections between the two, America's political system diverges from the UK's in numerous and important ways.
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Times Opinion: For Tennessee Republicans, doing nothing is the point
When our representatives are sworn into Congress, they are, first and foremost, making a promise to protect and defend the Constitution — "against all enemies foreign and domestic."
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Times Opinion: We need to talk about Mark Herndon
Mark Herndon made a mistake.
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Times Opinion: There’s a reason Tennessee keeps getting sued
Jonathan Skrmetti has been quite busy. Since assuming office in 2022, the attorney general has been involved in numerous lawsuits representing the state of Tennessee — not in the interest of the public, as is the intention of the position, but largely in service to the GOP's exclusive and authoritarian vision for this state.
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Times Opinion: Frazier Ave. redesign should be replicated across downtown Chattanooga
On Nov. 25, 2023, at the Forest Avenue block of Frazier Avenue on Chattanooga's North Shore, a tragedy occurred.
