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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: There’s nothing efficient about Weston Wamp’s county government
The latest governing philosophy coming from the political right is the notion that government — with all the critical services and operations it oversees — should, to save taxpayer dollars, function in the most efficient way possible. Leading that charge locally in Hamilton County is its mayor: Weston Wamp.
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Times Opinion: Transplant Californians aren’t the problem. It’s our homegrown politicians in Tennessee.
Talk to any longtime resident of this region, and while many may exaggerate the point, they likely see Chattanooga as a growing and changing city. This is due in large part, locals say, to an influx of out-of-state transplants, particularly from California.
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Times Opinion: TVA salary cuts hit low-level workers the hardest
When there's talk of eliminating fraud, waste and abuse within the government, an image of some deceptive opportunist stealing from the taxpayer is often conjured in the minds of those sympathetic to such a narrative.
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Times Opinion: New polling shows a poor economy sours Tennessee on Trump
For almost all of President Donald Trump's decade in politics, he has had an ironclad grip on the Republican MAGA faithful in Tennessee.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee is the model for Jim Crow 2.0
Jim Crow, an authoritarian system of racial apartheid, was thought to be long buried in the past. But after a yearslong effort from the U.S. Supreme Court to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a 21st-century version of state-sanctioned subjugation has emerged: Jim Crow 2.0.
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Times Opinion: The true state of Hamilton County
As is his annual tradition, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp, joined by other local and state elected officials, delivered his fourth State of the County address this week.
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Times Opinion: This isn’t how Chattanooga should handle homelessness
Amid the rising number of people in Chattanooga sleeping on the street on any given night, the city finds itself in a politically fraught position: How should the government and the broader community handle the worsening issue of homelessness?
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Times Opinion: Hamilton County is now vulnerable to local Black disenfranchisement
In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision — which grants states permission to erase majority-minority congressional districts and with it, any trace of Black political power — much attention has been directed toward the Tennessee GOP's gerrymander that sliced majority-Black Memphis three ways to wipe out the state's lone Democratic district.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee Republicans are creating conditions ripe for violent civil conflict
When we reflect on the civil rights era of the mid-20th century, we often think of the momentous accomplishments of the movement: chiefly, the end of legal racial segregation and voting rights afforded to Black Americans.
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Times Opinion: A better democracy in Chattanooga starts with you
In the wake of Tennessee's mid-decade redistricting — a racist gerrymander depriving Memphis, a majority Black city, of any meaningful federal representation — there is no denying, especially if other Republican-controlled states follow suit, that what is left of our democracy is at a crisis point.
