Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: It’s time for stock-trading bans for Congress
From 2019 to 2021, during the time of the pandemic — 183 current senators or representatives reported a trade of a stock or another financial asset by themselves or an immediate family member while more than half of them, 97, sat on congressional committees that potentially gave them insight into the companies whose shares they reported buying or selling, according to an analysis published last week in the New York Times.
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Opinion: The return of Combat Joe
Whenever Joe Biden goes on the offensive, there are observations that he's being combative, as if it were foreign to him, as if it were a new strategy he had only now begun to employ.
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Opinion: Roberts asks why trust in the court has plunged. He’s seated among the answers
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts lamented recently that he didn't "understand" why the court's legitimacy has been diminished in Americans' eyes merely because it has issued "opinions people disagree with."
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Opinion: Josh Hawley is disturbingly wrong: The US Constitution is not based on the Bible
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri gave a speech last Monday explaining what he views as the biblical foundations of American government.
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Opinion: The real reason Americans love royalty
I am American, a citizen of a country that long ago rejected monarchs and sovereigns. I have never lived under a king or a queen, and it's difficult for me to understand why the British persist in doing so in the modern world.
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Opinion: Will Gov. Bill Lee’s unelected charter panel overturn school board votes?
Throughout September, the Tennessee Charter School Commission's 13-member staff of the state's unelected, nine-member charter school commission will be determining whether decisions by elected school boards to deny charter school petitions "were contrary to the best interests" of students, local education agencies and communities.
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Opinion: America in winter
President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. It was spring. The calendar said otherwise, yes. But, as has been argued before in this space, Kennedy presided over a season of renewal, a season when optimism was birthright, confidence, high and horizons, endless.
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Opinion: A cheer to those who answer the call to something greater than self-service
At a time when it seems like our society is spiraling with out-of-control selfishness, consumed with immediate gratification, self- centeredness, illiberalism and grievance, it can be helpful to remind ourselves that there are plenty of folks around who practice altruism.
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Opinion: Let’s gauge our interest in council seat, third grade retention and puppies
If the voters of Chattanooga's District 8 — in Alton Park, Avondale, Bushtown, East Chattanooga, East Lake, Eastside, Ridgedale and downtown — don't like their new council person Marvene Noel, they have no one to blame but themselves.
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Opinion: Too many Chattanooga shootings? Yes, but we’re on the right track. Look deeper
Like a number of Chattanoogans, we noticed more news about shootings and carjackings in the first couple of weeks of September, so with an email late Friday afternoon, we on this page made an informal inquiry with a police acquaintance about it.
