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City sends mixed messages on vaping, school pay gap, term limits and more Rants

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Mixed municipal messages. CARTA buses sporting “stop vaping” public service ads, while city allows vape stores at every bus stop intersection.

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann in CTFP interview states he supports ICE. Go back to your old lawyer job as a debt collector. We don’t want you.

Wow, our school superintendent makes over a quarter of a million dollars a year while teachers have to pay for supplies out of pocket.

Thank you, Collegedale Police, for keeping this part of Hamilton County safe and law enforced. It is appreciated!

Please do not cancel Sunday TFP sold in stores. Thank you for continued delivery of Community News. My mom appreciates inserted ads for grocery specials.

It’s OK to think of ourselves as unique, but it’s delusional to assert privilege if needing a voucher for private school, particularly church schools.

There should not be a term limit on our county commissioners. They should serve as long as they are doing their job well and they get the votes.

Fixed income. I used to be on a fixed income. With the new marketplace health insurance premium increase, I am now on a broken income.

Where is common courtesy? Like taking screaming children out of restaurants, not letting them run wild in public, having manners, being polite. Declining society. Sad.

YMCA: What a fun place to extend your life. Quit sitting and rotting. Get down to the gym and exercise. Walk!

Enough of Jonathan Frost, please. Wasting space in our paper. Add more Dear Abby or something interesting.

Equating voter ID to Jim Crow (Bennett cartoon, 02/17) is too much of a stretch, even for liberals like Clay Bennett.

Another great column by Ron Hart. Only the left can get mad at studies he cites, making his point. Instead of debating, they want opposing voices silenced.

President Trump pardoned Travis Henry and Jamal Lewis for their drug convictions. The 1998 Vols keep stacking wins.

No emission standards. No need for catalytic converter. Cars $2,000 cheaper. We die five years earlier.

If you endured on/off gas-saving car switch with every slowdown, you’d cuss Obama, Biden too. Thank heavens EPA has some sense now.

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Leaky logic. Residents should hope for city street underground water leaks since water company at least paves streets after repair.

I’m thankful every day I walk Frazier Avenue for the community and courage that pushed for its redesign. We need this safety on Brainerd Road immediately.

JD Vance, you were booed at the Olympic ceremonies; kudos to those that did it! Also, Olympians have a right to voice their First Amendment rights!

Medicare Advantage is called that for a reason: The advantage goes to the insurer, not the insured. Beware. Read carefully. Think. Then act.

Will attorneys and consultants actually work honestly your “billable hours” or stop billing fictitious hours? And that applies to time sheets too …

Ranters depicting ICE facilities as “torture detention centers” and “concentration camps.” Really?! How’d you gain access inside? Answer: You didn’t. Just parroting mindless hysteria.

Trump is dismantling America’s home, freedom, international climate rules, reviving prejudice and other atrocities like a Whac-A-Mole and we can’t stay focused to stop him.

If you blame Trump administration for not releasing EVERYTHING in Epstein files, you must blame Biden administration for not releasing ANYTHING for four years.

The recent sewage spill in the Potomac is visual evidence of what we hear being discharged daily in Washington.

AI getting ugly, writing blogs about people who reject their code. Hang on, people. Someone taught it to be highly offended victim. Must be a Dem.

Trump has crossed every line. He needs to be removed immediately.

Wanted Dem candidates: able to speak word salad, wear rose-colored glasses, live in bubble, no knowledge of international, financial, economic or Constitution subjects required.