Opinion
Hear thoughts and perspectives from Chattanooga area community members
More in Opinion, page 72
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Free Press Opinion: Will colleges follow the government’s lead to lower costs?
As children make their way through school, they are often reminded college is the path toward a successful career and stability.
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A Clean Fight
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for July 8, 2026.
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The Self Destruct Button
Michael Ramirez's Free Press cartoon for July 8, 2026.
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Dear Abby: Husband is a mad scientist in the kitchen
DEAR ABBY: I never want to eat my husband's cooking again. He refuses to follow recipes because he says they are "too hard."
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Times Opinion: Hamilton County data center moratorium doesn’t go far enough
As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, the technology has sparked widespread protest among Republicans, Democrats and the public at large, politically engaged or not.
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Free Press Opinion: Commission group text OK if informational, monitored
When the Tennessee Sunshine Law passed the state legislature in 1974, we don't imagine anyone involved could conceive of email, texts, instant messages and the like.
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Times Opinion: Supreme Court seeks to rewrite, not interpret, the Constitution
In the U.S. Supreme Court's most anticipated case of its now concluded term, the justices ruled last week that President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally end birthright citizenship protections enshrined in the 14th Amendment. What should have been beyond debate instead survived by a single vote.
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Times Opinion: Restore voting rights for former prisoners
Here at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a small maximum security prison in upstate New York, I am part of a nine-month reentry program called Project Build.
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Erlanger Park needs recycling bins and more letters to the editors
One thing stood out for the wrong reason: I could not find a recycling option for plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
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Ask a Doctor: You may need backup birth control if you’re on the pill and a GLP-1
Q: I keep hearing that weight-loss medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro can make birth control pills less effective. Is that true?
