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Free Press Opinion: Our technology fears: We’ve been here before
If we were to tell you we understood everything about quantum computing, we'd be lying. And you probably wouldn't. believe us anyway.

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Local Opinion: The pluses and pitfalls of working third shift
I'm of the age when conventional wisdom had Joe Citizen and Jane Housewife rising with the sun, earning a living or keeping the household on the straight and narrow, then knocking off around sundown, having some dinner and watching the tube until the local news signed off.

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National Opinion: Trump’s loyalty problems now our problems, too
President Donald Trump has a loyalty problem. Actually, he has two of them.

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The Golden Age
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for Oct. 3, 2026.

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Trump vs. Congress
Michael Ramirez's Free Press cartoon for Oct. 3, 2026.

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Inflation
Lisa Benson's Free Press cartoon for Oct. 5, 2026.

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Dear Abby: Son remains hostile even after dad’s cancer diagnosis
DEAR ABBY: I am a 79-year-old woman who, over time, has suffered the loss of several family members. Now I'm facing the worst loss imaginable.
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Free Press Editorial: Pike’s fate now may be in hands of woman governor
Would Tennessee's first woman governor allow the execution of a woman to go forward?

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Ron Hart: Trump, the greatest ego in the history of egos, maybe ever
It is a little-known (except to everyone) fact that Donald J. Trump does not merely possess an ego. He is in a long-term, exclusive and extremely public relationship with it. It's the most enduring relationship in his life.

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Tennessee Executions
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for Oct. 2, 2026.
