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: Repealing certificate of need laws is key to better and more health care
The Tennessee legislature tackled many important priorities last session, but the significance of the 113th General Assembly's legislation to help spur greater access to quality, affordable health care across our state cannot be overstated.

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Opinion: America and Europe can hang together — or hang separately
Consider these European and American binaries.

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Opinion: How property tax increases became a new third rail in U.S. politics
If he thought he was selling something that anyone wanted to buy, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sure got a wake-up call.

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Opinion: Jimmy Carter made me a conservative
I was 21 when Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976.

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Opinion: Time to end a profiteering Congress
In the final days of his presidency, Joe Biden has endorsed a truly bipartisan cause: barring members of Congress from trading on Wall Street using privileged information.

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Opinion: GOP needs to embrace prison reform
President-elect Donald Trump and nominees for his upcoming administration often speak about cutting spending to reduce the debt.

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Opinion: Germany’s self-inflicted Morgenthau Plan
Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany.

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Opinion: Good riddance, Joe Biden
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Joe.

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Opinion: Journalists failed to ask Dr. Anthony Fauci the hard questions during the pandemic
In the midst of a flurry of presidential pardons and commutations by President Joe Biden, there is talk in the White House of preemptive pardons for people who could be at risk of prosecution by the next administration.

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Opinion: New Orleans attack a security wake-up call for cities
Updates keep coming in on the New Year's Day terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, but one detail thus far is especially disturbing and serves as a wake-up call to cities across the country.
