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Opinion - Free Press Editorials
Cooper's Eye On The Left: Your New Mexico passport, sir?
Gavin Clarkson, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for secretary of state in New Mexico in last month's election, recently learned firsthand...
Cooper: Political realignment not happening
A recent Barna Group survey has news for those who read "political realignment" into either the 2016 presidential election or...
Cooper: Open enrollment is no magic pill
We'd like to think Thursday's vote by the Hamilton County Board of Education to allow open enrollment at seven of...
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Cooper: TVA should go the extra mile
A battle with Tennessee Valley Authority is probably not one Chattanooga businessman Greg Vital is going to win, but it's...
Cooper: Police beating needs due process
We'll defend the general First Amendment rights of local groups to expose what they believe is police brutality in the...
Cooper: Berke has had heart for Tubman
It's been more than seven years since the Chattanooga Housing Authority (CHA) informed residents of the Harriet Tubman public housing...
Cooper: Neediest Cases fund needs you
Two weeks from today is Christmas Day. When we think of the generous spirits of people at Christmas, we think...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Who's the minority-est?
It may be a trend, good for some but not for others.
Cooper: Rethinking a plan for Chattanooga's homeless
What if everything a city was doing about homelessness was wrong and needed to be blown up?
Cooper: An economically advantaged advantage?
The Tennessee Department of Education's 2018 State Report Card is awash with information for administrators, teachers, parents and students to...
Cooper: No need to close Tennessee primaries
If the Tennessee Republican Party has its way, primary election voting in the state will be by party registration only.
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Cooper: Bush the last of his kind
George H.W. Bush, who died at the age of 94 late Friday, may have been the last of his kind.
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Clinton tickets tank in Toronto
We'll throw in a book!
Cooper: Supreme Court should fix redistricting process
Much rhetoric was spent during the 2018 election and in previous years of this decade decrying the gerrymandering states did...
Cooper: Myth-making and the caravan
If someone with the renown of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a serious misunderstanding of what a migrant is, is...
Cooper: Favorable abortion trend continues
Shh! The political left doesn't want you to know, but abortions fell another 2 percent in the latest available statistics...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: The Kaepernick chorus - again
When Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith suffered a season-ending injury on Nov. 18, one name formed on the lips of...
Cooper: Trump and the 'better angels'
Two years after Donald Trump was elected president, people are still trying to determine just who it is we have...
Cooper: Shelter concerns outweighed questions
With little more than two weeks between the first public mention and Wednesday's approval, the Humane Educational Society (HES) has...
Cooper: Left's election rhetoric never over
If you thought the semi-concessions by candidates for governor in Georgia and Florida and United States Senate in Florida were...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Trump did it; it must be wrong
The late Elvis Presley is one of President Trump's 2018 Medal of Freedom honorees, so, as per usual, someone must...
