A friend and I were discussing the new baseball stadium project. A few comments:

As a confirmed political independent with friends and close associates from both major parties, I generally enjoy staying out of the political fray these days. However, this seems like a good time to speak up.

Two months have passed since the slaughter of 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Indeed, the liberals have a point. The Constitution does need updating.

I have been following the debate about whether Chattanooga and Hamilton County should finance a new stadium for the Lookouts.

I have been reading the pros and cons for building the Lookouts a new stadium in the Southside.

Woo-whee! The Supreme Court certainly scored some grand slams this term.

We've heard it before. We've seen it before. We'll see it again.

A recent issue of the Times Free Press reported disparaging remarks towards K-12 teachers by President Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College.

I find myself puzzled by recent events. I wonder why people who call themselves "pro-life" are committed to protecting the lives of the unborn, yet those same people don't care enough about protecting children in schools from being massacred to see that laws are changed.

I know the pro-choice group is very unhappy with the Supreme Court's decision to return the abortion issue to the individual states, where it belonged in the first place.

What about neglect, abuse, torture and killing of children by mothers did anti-abortionists consider as they celebrated?

Accountability? I was assaulted on June 6. Very shortly before that on the same premises, another elderly white man was assaulted.

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty: Think about it. We all know that 18-year-old kids should not be allowed to have access to an automatic rifle that was designed to be a weapon for war, yet we have watched as hundreds of children are killed year after year because we have done nothing to prevent an 18-year-old from getting these horrible weapons and invading our schools.

To Police Chief Celeste Murphy: When I arrived in Chattanooga, my first thoughts about the city were how beautiful the mountains and the river are

Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, I am a retired newspaper editor in Chattanooga, a conservative Republican and a supporter of the Second Amendment.

For years now, I have delayed in writing this letter. I had good intentions after each school shooting, hoping something would be done, only to hear crickets.

When will the American public decide it has had enough of the gun violence plaguing our country and the partisan ways of our politicians?

Republicans sat by and watched as Democrats took God out of the classroom, stopped teaching civics and American history, and people wonder how we got into our current mess.

So we should penalize unaffiliated voters? As an unaffiliated independent, I vote for representatives of various political parties. I like to feel my vote counts, too.

Thanks to former President Donald Trump, now any election where somebody loses, they've decided that it must have been rigged.

This is getting old.

Regarding abortion and a woman's right to choose: If men gave birth, abortion clinics would be as numerous throughout the country as payday loan centers.