Opinion: Bags from Target can help solve the plastics problem
Last week, Chattanoogans came out to experience this year's MainX24 festival and market. All along Main Street, food trucks and small businesses filled the str…
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Opinion: Get serious about equity or punt on progress
In all of the challenges facing our city — affordable housing, education, health care and living wage jobs — the lack of equity underpins them all. Disparities…
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Opinion: Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher program prioritizes privilege over equity
Public education is a right in this country. It is not a means to keep the privileged class in privilege. And yet that is exactly what Republican Gov. Bill Lee…
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Opinion: LeBron’s Looks: Good riddance, George Santos
After the third expulsion vote, Rep. George Santos, R-New York, was ousted from Congress on Friday after a House Ethics Committee report showed Santos' misuse …
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Opinion: Why Chattanooga must shift to a pedestrian-focused community
Flowers lay against the boarded-up wall that now covers a Chattanooga gift shop at the corner of Frazier and Forest avenues on the North Shore.
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Opinion: Moving bus stop away for low barrier shelter has its lessons
The idea to create a low barrier shelter for people experiencing homelessness is a good idea. Why? Because it offers resources for people at risk, are vulnerab…
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Opinion: LeBron’s Looks: Gov. Bill Lee turns away from red flag law
In March, when a Tennessee bill that banned drag shows in public spaces was signed into law, Gov. Bill Lee defended it by saying that it was to ensure children…
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Opinion: Grieving with food: The Thanksgiving Way
"Can you please make it?" I asked my grandmother, begging her to make her famous Cherries Jubilee. It was a simple but oh-so-perfect dish.
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Opinion: License plate readers rollout requires fairness, intention
Will Hamilton County become a surveillance state?
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Opinion: Shared roads, shared responsibility: More bike lanes benefit everyone
Chattanooga has plenty of ambitions for its infrastructure.
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Opinion: Retirees make Hamilton County school board races even more important
Presidential politics have consumed newsprint, television and radio talk shows and social media for months, and there are months to go before the November 2024…
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Opinion: Council meeting time change: Who really benefits?
The Chattanooga City Council has changed its business meeting time, a move that leaves just one impression: Council members are limiting public access to their…
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Opinion: Start real, honest conversation about gun violence
Thanksgiving is two weeks away, and with the delicious food and family time come the dreaded political conversations.
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Opinion: Firing range hinders Moccasin Bend’s potential. Get it off
The rustling of tree leaves as the wind passes through them.
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Opinion: Police video releases: Unveiling the truth or controlling a narrative?
Protecting the integrity of a police investigation and the public's right to know often ends in an unsatisfactory stalemate, as highlighted in a Sunday Times F…
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Opinion: Plan Chattanooga survey creates structure for city’s future
Plan Chattanooga, an effort to gauge how residents think the city is addressing issues now and what they envision for the future, recently posted results from …
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Opinion: Lebron's Look: Low-barrier shelter not a high risk for Chattanooga
Chattanooga police Capt. Zachary McCullough said in a Wednesday community meeting that he's open to the idea of the low-barrier shelter being built on East 12t…
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Opinion: Putting humanity at the heart of the Hamas-Israel conversation
During last Saturday's pro-Palestine rally at Coolidge Park, protesters held up signs calling for the end of the war between Israel and Hamas and also for the …
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Opinion: Not one community should be left to address homelessness
On a perfect day, Merri Mai Williamson entertains guests with good food and great conversation at her home on East 10th Street, something she's become fond of …
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Opinion: LeBron’s Looks: White supremacy no match for John Oliver
When Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally announced they were creating a 10-member group to study the impact of the state rejectin…
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Opinion: The dangerous waiting game on gun reform in America
The information about the Maine gunman who is suspected in the shooting deaths of 18 people and injuring 13 others is still developing, but here's one thing th…
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Opinion: Fifth place in growth is best case for Hamilton County
A recent Times Free Press report on an analysis of U.S. Census data showed steady population growth in Hamilton County, but what does that really mean for its …
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Opinion: 2024 elections: What will the journey look like for Gloria Johnson?
There are burdens that Tennesseans must put up with these days:
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Opinion: LeBron’s Look: Can policy alone change Tennessee’s gun crisis?
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, last weekend was filled with festivals honoring the rich Latino and Hispanic communities in Chattanooga.
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Opinion: Open dialogue on Israel-Hamas conflict can bridge liberal divide
While Republican disarray has been fully exposed in the ugly, fractious contest to elect a new Speaker of the House, the devastating war in the Middle East has…
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Opinion: Christopher Wright’s death: Honor his memory; ignore the noise
The brutal killing of a well-known businessman downtown last month sent shock waves through Chattanooga, forcing the city to confront the grim reality of viole…
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Opinion: LeBron’s look: The moms who cried wolf
A recent in-depth Times Free Press report showed that from 2019 to now, only eight books have been challenged for their content by a parent in 19 Southeast Ten…
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Opinion: Changes to PARC tell a story of state overreach
In an effort led mostly by Republican legislators, the General Assembly passed a bill earlier this year that essentially gutted the power of police oversight b…
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Opinion: Student loan payments begin again. What’s next?
The month of October marks the beginning of something much scarier than ghouls, ghosts and werewolves: student loan payments restart.
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Opinion: LeBron’s Look: Queer animals, oh my!
It's Pride Week!
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Opinion: Chattanooga Pride Week can showcase city’s inclusivity
Cultivating a safe space is hard work for any community.
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Opinion: College Hill Court residents trade their home in hopes of a brighter future
Kenyetta Brown takes her three children to Sheila Jennings Park in College Hill Courts every day.
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Opinion: McCarthy shows bipartisan leadership and is made a villain
Against all odds, Congress avoided a government shutdown last weekend by passing a 45-day stopgap funding bill. The bill keeps government funding at current le…
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Opinion: Tennessee’s federal feud gets us nowhere
Yet again, the GOP wants the state known for the wrong things.
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Opinion: Gaining citizenship offers the prime example of our country’s freedom
What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
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Opinion: Black hair and the debate over culture vs conformity
I'm sitting in a barbershop in Nashville one day this year, waiting for my barber to finish up with a client.
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Opinion: A goverment shutdown looming, and we’re talking about suits?
It's the greatest scandal to hit D.C.
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Opinion: This Voter Registration Day, check your voter status and get engaged
Voting is vital to a democracy. It's a reminder that through the political mudslinging that occurs, the people still have the final say. And in 2024, you might…
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Opinion: An impeachment distraction and McCarthy’s pandering
Common sense would have you think that the biggest news coming out of Washington, D.C., is that Congress is coming together to create a plan to avoid a governm…
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Opinion: Moccasin Bend Health Institute decision a missed opportunity
One of the advantages of adulthood for most people is remembering their childhood fondly — of course they recall being the best, most well-behaved child. I hav…
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Opinion: Questions left unanswered about fatal shooting of David Mendez Lopez
On Saturday, Sept. 16, 17-year-old David Adrian Mendez Lopez will be laid to rest. His parents will say goodbye to a beloved son who was a senior at Howard Hig…
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Opinion: Support a national park at Moccasin Bend and invest in a new mental health hospital — off the bend
Moccasin Bend is a special piece of land now in the middle of a juggling act. Only this act isn't all that entertaining. The outcome of decisions state officia…
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Opinion: Johnson, Bradshaw candidacies show voters have viable choices
Who wants one strong Democrat woman running for the U.S. Senate when you can have two?
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Opinion: Consistent leadership is vital to a thriving Chattanooga and Mayor Tim Kelly wants to provide it
Only halfway through his first term, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly says he's ready for his second.
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Opinion: Term limits could be useful. Voting is vital
The concerning episode of the U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell freezing up while addressing the media on Aug. 30 has put the spotlight yet again on …
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Opinion: Larry Taylor answered the call; now he’s a Medal of Honor recipient
For every family member or friend of a war veteran, you'll always wonder what they went through.
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Opinion: A better future for America’s working class begins with politics
It's six o'clock and the sun is setting in Tullahoma, Tenn. Headlights hit the window of my bedroom as my mother's boyfriend, James, pulls his Pontiac GT into …
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Opinion: Does reclassifyng cannabis make legalizing more desirable?
A game-changing review could set the cannabis world ablaze.
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Opinion: GOP shows crack in armor during Tennessee special session
The Tennessee special session adjourned Tuesday the same way it began — a hot mess.
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Opinion: Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp’s attack on Red Bank is misguided
During a speech at Monday's Pachyderm Club meeting, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp joined the ranks of partisan Tennessee GOP officials who choose to create…
