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Opinion - Free Press Editorials
Cooper: Lee best choice for Tennessee governor
Republican Bill Lee is hoping to do something no Tennessean has accomplished in nearly 60 years — be elected governor...
Cooper: Blackburn will be reliable vote
We wish the race to replace Bob Corker as United States senator hadn't come to this. Indeed, we wish Corker...
Cooper: Give U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann a fifth term
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., told the Times Free Press in June he originally ran for Congress in 2010 because...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Bredesen's didn't-mean-it statement
Tennessee senatorial candidate Phil Bredesen's recent limp statement of support for the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh...
Cooper: Creating the best 2040 Chattanooga
In the early 1980s, Chattanooga's only vision was to stay afloat.
Cooper: The Democrats' closed rural hospitals obfuscation
Sometimes the number is 13, sometimes 12. Occasionally, the count is pegged a little lower by Democratic candidates for state...
Cooper: The Clintons on the road again
Alas, no one is calling it "The Farewell Tour."
Cooper: Looking beyond graduation rates
For a student or a parent, nothing quite beats a high school graduation ceremony.
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Columbus, they hardly knew ye
Today is Columbus Day, but many people only know what they've been fed in college or leftist media about the...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Obama lost Michigan
For the first year after Democrat Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the presidency in 2016, she cited myriad reasons...
Cooper: Our financially healthy state
Tennessee has the only surplus per individual state taxpayer of any state in the eastern portion of the United States,...
Cooper: The prisoner of accusation
Occasionally, we all come across a feel-good story in which an individual charged, convicted and imprisoned for a crime is...
Cooper: When nothing becomes fact
We don't know Soddy-Daisy High School athletic director Jared Hensley, so we can't characterize his motivation for making the comments...
Cooper: Ignore papaya month and register to vote
Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day. Are you registered? You should be.
Cooper's Eye on the Left: She Trumped herself
Such incidents are hardly shocking anymore in this era of Trump Derangement Syndrome, but we still are amazed that they...
Cooper: Then and now, Tennessee a key
Fifty years ago this week, just as it is this year, Tennessee was seen as a key state in national...
Cooper: Bredesen DNA spilling out
Each week that passes, old statements surface or new comments are made proving Democrat Phil Bredesen — no matter what...
Cooper: Lloyd was mix of grit, grace
During the two decades Marilyn Lloyd served in Congress, Tennessee's 3rd District was Republican territory and becoming more so.
Cooper: Thrive helping county thrive
A nonprofit 16-county, three-state partnership that seeks regional answers to transportation, conservation and economic development issues, it seems to us,...
Cooper: Just blame it on climate change
You hear it now every time a hurricane makes landfall on the United States mainland. The hurricane, a climate alarmist...
Cooper: Weigh accusation in context
No one serving in the United States Senate now, or ever, will know whether then-high school student Brett Kavanaugh attempted...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Moderates? Who needs moderates?
Former President Jimmy Carter had a little advice for his fellow Democrats in the last two months before the mid-term...
