Opinion
Hear thoughts and perspectives from Chattanooga area community members
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Dear Abby: Worker feels targeted by colleague’s change in behavior
DEAR ABBY: I've been employed at the same company for 17 years.
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Free Press Opinion Whose airport is it, after all? It’s the right fight to keep it
Barring a court ruling, in eight days the Chattanooga Airport board of directors will be dissolved and a new one formed that will offer state officials more authority over the airport than local ones.
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Free Press Opinion: Graduates cheered the affirmation of humans over AI; leaders, pay attention
I was seated onstage at Grand Valley State University's commencement when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak leaned into the microphone and reframed the entire conversation about artificial intelligence in six words.
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Community Voice: The missing middle path
I have a hypothesis. Many of the frustrations we see today — in politics, education, faith and work — are rooted in the loss of clear pathways into adulthood, stability and belonging.
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Times Opinion: America is not ‘one nation under God’
This July 4, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that throws off the yoke of a divinely appointed ruler.
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Times Opinion: Free speech, however vile, is vital to democracy
"If liberty means anything at all," wrote George Orwell, "it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
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The Blame Game
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for June 23, 2026.
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Dear Abby: Once married, wife realizes her husband is someone else
DEAR ABBY: I have experienced something that other women I know have said they have also experienced.
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Readers respond: Dispatcher raises; Let adults use pot; Pride Month about acceptance
I am writing as the proud wife of a Hamilton County 911 dispatcher.
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Community Voice: My commissioner won’t talk to me. He still gets to vote for me
I thought local politics were supposed to be boring.
