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Opinion - Free Press Editorials
Cooper: Investing in small businesses
Anyone who has ever owned, been employed by or been closely associated with a small business understands the difficulties in...
Cooper: Fairness and Trump's enemy
If Donald Trump is looking for fairness from "Saturday Night Live," he is looking in the wrong place.
Cooper's Eye on the left: The false MAGA files
What's the only "fact" you remember about the alleged attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett last month?
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Cooper: Preserving Tennessee treasures
It probably went little noticed by most Tennesseans last week, but Congress moved a bit closer to helping preserve or...
Cooper: TVA, the syncretist
The Tennessee Valley Authority has the ability to make both fossil-fuel advocates and green power proponents mad. It must be...
Cooper: Trump is doing what he said he'd do
Make no mistake about it. President Donald Trump believes a wall is needed on the country's Southern border.
Cooper: Prohibiting park puffing
Although most public playgrounds are open air, it seems reasonable to prohibit smoking in such spaces both for the health...
Cooper: Restoring felons' voting rights
Felony crime convictions in Tennessee, whether by a state court, a court in another state, or a federal court, cause...
Cooper: New love for septic tanks?
As it stands now, builders of new homes to supply the fast-growing northeastern portion of the county have their hands...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: Powerlifter wants to switch sides
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, wants to make sure biological males can compete in women's powerlifting events. She recently sent...
Cooper: Dreaming bigger in space
For baby boomers, who grew up in an era when space exploration offered the fascination and potential of a previous...
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Cooper: The King School option
We believe the Hamilton County Schools district is trying to turn things around in its Opportunity Zone schools, but many...
Cooper: Another tax increase for schools?
Two years ago, Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger desperately sounded like he was trying to say something without saying it.
Cooper: Velocity 2040's daunting goals
Achievable, utopian or somewhere in between?
Cooper: Democrats' border solution
The Democrats' proposed Keep Families Together Act reminds us of their ubiquitous use of the term "health care" when they...
Cooper: Greg Beck kept pushing for Howard School stadium
State Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, remembers when the need for a new track and football stadium for Howard School first...
Cooper: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's defenseless remarks
To say last week might have been the worst week in the life of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is an...
Cooper's Eye on the Left: One weekend with Bernie
The leader of the "Draft Beto [O'Rourke] 2020" movement apparently wants to get one rival of the vanquished Texas Senate...
Cooper: The path to job growth in Chattanooga, Hamilton County
Experts can slice and dice reasons or assign blame for comparably slow job growth and racial income disparities in the...
Cooper: Voters and loss of information
A new study has found in essence that, where newspapers shut down, people have less information.
Cooper: Consider tax credit openness
Count us among those who'd like to see more transparency where it comes to state business tax credits.
Cooper: Lessons, warnings from Venezuela
The crisis in Venezuela has both lessons and warnings for the United States.
