Opinion: Sensible legislation would 'sentence' gun security violators to taking firearms safety course
A 12-year-old Chattanooga boy accidentally shot himself in Eastdale Friday while his mother was inside a nearby store.
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Opinion: DeSantis needs to get his story straight on Ukraine
Since describing the war in Ukraine as a "territorial dispute" that's not a vital national interest, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has received criticism from lead…
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Opinion: Would you trust the IRS to do your taxes?
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Opinion: Local metro government push in 1964 would have created a body with 12 district representatives and six at-large members
Sixty years ago this week, on the same day Nashville was swearing in the 40 members of its Metropolitan Council for the first time, the Metropolitan Government…
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Opinion: Clock ticking in state and nation for Chinese video platform Tik Tok?
If you know who Khaby Lame and Charli D'Amelio are, we know how you spend your day. And we don't need algorithms to figure it out.
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Opinion: TikTok CEO says pay no attention to the people who sign my paycheck
TikTok's CEO is asking America to trust him to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Let's not.
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Opinion: Chickamauga Lock replacement taking longer to build than Taj Mahal and Buckingham Palace
Construction on the original navigation lock at Chickamauga Dam took about a year and a half. The construction of its replacement has taken, well, a lot longer.
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Opinion: California demons
The state of California, where people once moved to find beauty, prosperity and great weather, is rapidly becoming a failed state.
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Opinion: The politics of a Trump indictment
If you intend to indict and try a former president of the United States, especially a former president of the United States whose career has benefited from the…
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Opinion: State Senate should take measured route of House on abortions exceptions
No doctor in Tennessee has been charged yet for performing an abortion after the state's 2019 near ban went into effect last year. That's the good news.
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Opinion: Trump should follow LBJ’s example
If, as seems likely, Donald Trump is indicted by a New York grand jury for reportedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and if, as also seems likel…
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Opinion: Blackburn sounds partisan in public, but bipartisan legislation suggests she’s trying to get things done in D.C.
Is she a Republican attack dog, a Democrats' poodle or just playing politics the way it must done in Washington, D.C.?
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Opinion: What it means to be woke
Last week, conservative writer Bethany Mandel had the kind of moment that can happen to anyone who talks in public for a living: While promoting a new book cri…
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Opinion: Devastating flood 50 years ago this weekend would have been much worse without TVA
Fifty years ago today, Chattanoogans were drying out from what has since been described as a 100-year flood.
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Opinion: Dragged kicking and screaming into the culture wars
For those of you who think the culture wars do not affect regular people, I am here to tell you they do.