Kennedy: 15 hours in the Erlanger hospital emergency room
If you read the headline on this column expecting a rant, please back up.
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Opinon: Money, not standards, determines education quality
When I was assigned to be a Washington correspondent in 1994, I chose to move my young family to the northern Virginia suburb of Fairfax for a single reason: I…
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Opinion: The ancients knew how to educate children; why don’t today’s ‘educators’?
It's understandable that many parents are upset about what is being taught in their schools.
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Opinion: Saving Medicare will never be easier than it is right now
Despite a robust economy, the U.S. budget deficit is poised to double over the next year — to an eye-watering $2 trillion.
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Local history: Building the Chief John Ross Bridge
Thousands drive across the Market Street bridge each morning, most without any thought of its history.
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Opinion: Art and history a powerful mix at Bluff View District’s Houston Museum
Current debates about preserving history can be contentious, but our Bluff View Art District illustrates an important dimension to that debate: art.
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Opinion: It’s good to see some GOP women with a little giddy-up
U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, turned heads recently.
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Kennedy: Signal Mountain ‘Hat Lady’ thinks everyone needs a fashion statement
People at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church on Signal Mountain call her "The Hat Lady." She even has the words "hat lady" in her email address.
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Opinion: Disqualification under the 14th Amendment was once an issue in Tennessee
The 14th Amendment went into effect on July 28, 1868.
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Kennedy: Why I never get tired of tires
I think too much about automobile tires. If this mental malady had a name, it would be called "tread dread."
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Opinion: Ill effects of Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s abortion protest are overblown
Since February, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has blocked all senior military promotions requiring Senate confirmation to protest the Pentagon's policy of all…
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Opinion: Tuberville’s misguided stunt threatens our national security
A misguided stunt by a single senator with extremist views on abortion is jeopardizing our national security and putting American lives at risk.
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Local history: 1905 celebration opens city’s Carnegie library
Our Chattanooga Public Library system, one of the city's greatest treasures, is interwoven into the fabric of this community so thoroughly that it is difficult…
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Opinion: Remembering my departed Druncle Mac
Since my looming family reunion will be the first one without our beloved Druncle Mac, I thought it would be nice to remember him and revisit his life lessons.
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Opinion: Reclaiming and reviving our world and ourselves with ‘fun-icity’
When people ask what I do for fun, I just shrug and hope they go away. Ever since the pandemic, my sense of fun has been in hiding, tucked away far beneath my …
