Free Press Commentary
The latest Free Press Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Ignatius: Dangers still lurk in South Asia
WASHINGTON -- Last weekend's deadly attack on an international hospital in Afghanistan was a reminder of the terrible war that grinds on there, with Afghan civilians caught in the crossfire.
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Gerson: Presidential tantrums won’t end gun violence
WASHINGTON -- Following the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, a "smoldering" (as one commentator put it) President Obama gave a revealing speech -- a clarification, a culmination, of much that had come before.
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Sharp: Slow down on tax breaks for VW supplier
The Chattanooga tax break aircraft named "The PILOT" continues to break the sound barrier. Not even the stunning news about Volkswagen slows it down. We have lots of needs in our city, and yet we continue to erode our revenue base with the number, magnitude and sloppiness of tax break agreements.
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Gerson: America’s populist moment?
WASHINGTON -- The most fateful, unanswered question of the 2016 campaign: Is this a populist moment in America?
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Gerson: The golden age of aid
WASHINGTON -- Bill Gates is now focused on the eradication of malaria, and parasites everywhere have reason to fear.
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Krauthammer: Double suicide and the presidential campaign of 2015
WASHINGTON -- Meanwhile, on the Democrats' side:
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Gerson: Francis’ profound personalism
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has delivered to Congress his State of the Soul address -- historically sophisticated, gracefully appropriate, morally ambitious -- and I am all for making it a yearly ritual, along with (or in place of) the tired and tedious presidential version we have now.
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Wurzel and Robbins: Better Bend makes a better Chattanooga
Chattanooga and Hamilton County have an exceptional opportunity to develop a national park at their doorstep, one of only 408 such parks in the United States.
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Krauthammer: Putin’s gambit, Obama’s puzzlement
WASHINGTON -- Once again, President Obama and his foreign policy team are stumped.
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Gerson: The wreckage left by the summer of Trump
WASHINGTON -- The relatively rare moments of economic analysis and political outreach in the second Republican debate -- Chris Christie talking about income stagnation, or Marco Rubio lamenting the "millions of people in this country living paycheck to paycheck," or Jeb Bush setting out the necessary goal of accelerated economic growth, or John Kasich calling for a "sense of hope, a sense of purpose, a sense of unity" -- only served to highlight the opportunity cost of the Trump summer.
