Opinion
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Dear Abby: Widow’s new beau does not pull his weight
DEAR ABBY: My husband died six years ago. I met a widower three years ago.
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Free Press Opinion: Voters deserve to know when influencers are being paid to sell candidates
Influencers aren't just hawking lip gloss, vacation ideas and exercise tips these days. Increasingly, they're being paid to shape how voters view elections.
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Community Voice: Data center actions by TVA need more scrutiny
In his Aug. 25 column, Clint Cooper complains about TVA's "critics" — including Appalachian Voices — for pushing for cleaner energy and raising concerns about the impacts of data centers and coal and gas power plants that power them.
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Local Opinion: Is Tennessee really one of the worst states to retire?
A recent study by 24 Hour Caregivers has ranked Tennessee as the sixth worst state to retire, which both surprised and shocked me.
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Island in Iran
Lisa Benson's Free Press cartoon for Sept. 3, 2026.
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Dear Abby: Roommate’s ‘all-nighter’ causes worry
DEAR ABBY: I'm a college junior in need of advice. I share an apartment with two other female students, "Wendy" and "Lauren," who roomed together before I met them.
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Free Press Opinion: Constitutional changes decked up for Tennessee voters
You know all that writing at the bottom of your election ballot that you're unfamiliar with and don't want to take the time to read? Well, get ready. Some of that will be on your November ballot.
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Opinion: Unelected bureaucrats revive recently vetoed Tennessee tax hike
Some Tennesseans might not know it, but Republican Gov. Bill Lee shielded them from a sudden rise in phone bills this summer when he vetoed legislation to increase the 911 surcharge.
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Times Opinion: Playing football is a choice. (Well, sort of)
Anyone searching for good news in a report published last week in the BMJ — a prominent British medical journal — might turn to the headline under which the New York Times published the report's conclusions: "Study's Alarming Finding: At Least 1 in 4 N.F.L. Players Gets Brain Disease."
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Lake America
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for Sept. 2, 2026.
