Free Press Commentary
The latest Free Press Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Opinion: UTC Rollins College research details how local housing affordability declined
You won't find the name of President Joe Biden in a recent report, "Housing Affordability Trends in Chattanooga," released by the Center for Regional Economic Research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Gary W. Rollins College of Business.
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Opinion: The real threat is the end of checks and balances
Julius Caesar still casts a long shadow. We have a 12-month calendar -- and leap year -- thanks to Julius. July is named after him (though the salad isn't). The words czar and kaiser, now mostly out of use, simply meant "Caesar."
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Opinion: Tax policies turning out the lights on New York, New Jersey
The phrase about turning off the lights when one leaves someplace appears to have originated with two real estate agents in Seattle. It was 1971 and Boeing was laying off employees during an economic downturn. It was meant to be humorous, though the unemployed probably didn't see it that way.
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Opinion: Weekend Dialogue – Graduation rates up again, how well prepared are the graduates?
Before the 21st century, graduation rates of students at individual area high schools were largely unknown to the public.
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Opinion: Will VW workers strike or strike out in trying to get even better contract?
If the United Auto Workers hoped Volkswagen would blink when at least two-thirds of VW union members voted to authorize a strike, which was announced Wednesday, it was mistaken.
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Opinion: Big beautiful ballroom bemoaned by backbenchers
Things are not going well for the Dems. When their "No Kings" rally fell flat, it made Nancy Pelosi go back on the Crown Royal.
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Opinion: Sports leagues are sanctioning a bad bet
In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not.
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Opinion: Tennessee attorney general Skrmetti unafraid to wade into controversial issues
When Jonathan Skrmetti was appointed as Tennessee's attorney general in 2022, he told Nashville's WPLN he had little media training and was a lawyer, not a politician.
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Opinion: The great Trump-Putin breakup and why it matters right now
Donald Trump appears to have finally fallen out of love with Vladimir Putin, which is good news, long time coming.
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Opinion: American ‘state capitalism’ is destined for failure
Call it industrial policy, state capitalism, old-fashioned socialism: It's a bad idea. Across several recent administrations, the U.S. government's role in the economy has grown increasingly intrusive. It's a tried-and-failed experiment that should be scrapped before it does any more harm.
