Opinion
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Dear Abby: Grown sons tell dad to ditch his wife of 45 years
DEAR ABBY: My husband was married to a woman who lied to him about being pregnant. She wasn't at the time, but she later became pregnant.
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Times Opinion: Homelessness just declined in the US. Trump’s plans will take us backward
In June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finally released the long-awaited homelessness numbers for 2025, revealing a 3.3% decrease in overall homelessness between January 2024 and January 2025.
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Times Opinion: The transgender sports decision was about something deeper than law
Read the Supreme Court's recent ruling on transgender athletes — the majority's decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the dissent, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor — and you will see the court arguing about something more fundamental than the law.
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Deborah Levine: Reflecting on family, freedom and the future on July 4
Approaching July 4, I decided to ask folks what this day meant to them.
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Ron Hart: Happy 250th to the world’s longest running group project
It is Independence Day, a great American tradition which combines three things we like: eating, alcohol and fireworks. It is set against the pent-up tension of having to be around all your relatives in scorching heat with dubious potato salad.
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Free Press Opinion: Feds find more health care fraud. When will it end?
It shouldn't be too much to ask that taxpayer-funded social service programs benefit people who actually exist.
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Tree of Liberty
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for July 3, 2026.
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Oh Say Can You See
Lisa Benson's Free Press cartoon for July 3, 2026.
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Letters to the editors: Head of the Hooch worth keeping; taking on CVS prices and more
For more than two decades, the Head of the Hooch has become one of Chattanooga's signature events, bringing national visibility, thousands of visitors and an estimated $12 million annually to our community. It is a tradition worth preserving.
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Times Opinion: 19th century reformers made this country more equal, inclusive and strong
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal."
