Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Deborah Levine: How I’ll combine 9/11 and the Jewish new year
This year, the anniversary of 9/11 and the Jewish New Year coincide on Sept. 11.
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Times Opinion: With Trump, even the trivial things do matter
President Donald Trump has renamed the lake formerly known as Ontario as Lake America. He's also renamed the Gulf of Mexico and has posted about renaming the Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait. He's even mused aloud about renaming one or two oceans.
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Times Opinion: Women can thank Gloria Steinem for so much we take for granted now
I once wrote that Gloria Steinem, the great feminist thinker and activist who died Sept. 2 at 92, was like an indispensable computer program running in the background of every American woman's life.
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Times Opinion: Trump’s anti-worker policies giving Democrats a boost
The Democratic Party wins the "party of workers" title by default, because the Trump administration and the Republican Party, which controls both houses of Congress, have spent the last year and a half chasing erratic and corrupt policies that increase living costs, weaken wages and push financial security out of reach for the next generation of working Americans.
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Community Voice: Voters should consider candidates’ behavioral traits
Here's a civics trick question. Write down all the states that had a lower voter turnout than Tennessee in the last midterm election. If you did not write anything down, congratulations!
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Times Opinion: Trump’s popularity has reached a critical point
President Donald Trump can dismiss public opinion polls as "fake news" all he wants.
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Deborah Levine: Preserve Chattanooga by securing its stories, history
When I saw that a public workshop was offered at the downtown public library featuring Preserve Chattanooga, I knew where I'd be that afternoon.
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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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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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Times Opinion: Marsha Blackburn has betrayed Tennessee farmers
Marsha Blackburn has represented Tennessee for 23 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. At the age of 74, she now wants to become Tennessee's oldest governor after promoting policies in Washington that hurt Tennessee farmers and businesses.
