Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 24
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Times Opinion: Utah housing model is the wrong way to go
A controversial plan in Utah to build a remote "homeless campus" is being hailed in some quarters as a bold new approach to the nation's soaring homeless population.
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Times Opinion: If citizenship can be taken away, was it ever real?
I grew up in a home of immigrants from Colombia, Cuba and Peru, and ours was a mixed-status family.
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Times Opinion: The DOJ’s Comey indictment goes way too far
For an administration that has been all too willing to weaponize the Department of Justice, the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey marks a new low.
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Times Opinion: Flipping the Senate is a real possibility. It won’t be easy
The Republican Party began this midterm election cycle as the heavy favorite to retain the Senate majority.
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Times Opinion: Protect the rights of students with disabilities
Once upon a time, a little-known agency within the U.S. Department of Education known as the Office of Special Education Programs was able to help students with disabilities whose access to schooling had been compromised. Agency officials would teach schools how to correct behaviors in an appropriate and supportive manner.
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Times Opinion: Trump’s own tariffs will never be legal
Despite taking an oath (twice) to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," Donald Trump clearly hasn't read it. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress, not the president, the "Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises."
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Community Voice: Contractor layoffs misplace blame at Chickamauga Lock project
Last Friday, 43 brothers and sisters from Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 846 got the call telling them not to report back to the Chickamauga Lock replacement project until they hear otherwise.
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Times Opinion: Alligator Alcatraz has been a shameful nightmare. Shut it down
Gov. Ron DeSantis was trying to spin the news that he might have to close Alligator Alcatraz, his fetid, jerry-built concentration camp in the Everglades.
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Times Opinion: Israel’s victories aren’t bringing it closer to peace
Since the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in 2023, Israel has won a series of remarkable tactical victories against its enemies. If it continues to foreclose any pathway to peace with the Palestinians, though, it's going to find itself without friends.
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Times Opinion: The good death is still very elusive
In 2009, I wrote a column about Sir Edward Downes and his wife, Lady Joan.
