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: MLK rightly said Israel has a right to exist — but it’s not antisemitic to seek peace in Gaza
Usually, when Martin Luther King's words are misappropriated, the culprits are misinformation mercenaries trying to advance some right-wing idea that is light …
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Opinion: Gun case forces Supreme Court to confront its own illogic
The good news is that the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision that said police can't confiscate guns from domestic abusers. The…
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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: What voters want that Donald Trump seems to have
So about that poll. You know the one: the Times/Siena poll showing Donald Trump with an edge over President Joe Biden in five out of six swing states, and sugg…
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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: Biden is losing to Trump in a new poll. Does that pass the smell test?
The New York Times and Siena College recently released the results of a presidential match-up poll for six battleground states for 2024, finding Donald Trump l…
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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: ‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and our broken Christian politics
There are two moments from Mike Johnson's early days as speaker of the House that almost perfectly encapsulate the broken way that so many Republican evangelic…
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Opinion: 3 very dangerous zombie lies
You probably know what a "zombie lie" is, but, just in case, it's an idea or proposition or theory that is demonstrably, logically and intuitively false but wh…
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Opinion: Can America afford a new nuclear weapons buildup?
Even as the Pentagon budget soars toward $1 trillion per year and President Joe Biden is seeking a $100 billion-plus emergency spending package to, among other…
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Opinion: Holding national security hostage to help tax cheats
Historians of propaganda are familiar with the concept of the Big Lie, a claim so extreme that many people end up accepting it because they can't believe that …
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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: It’s time to say goodbye to changing clocks twice a year
We have come to the day when we move our clocks back an hour, commonly described as "falling back," and say goodbye to daylight saving time. Perhaps members of…
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Opinion: America’s rifle fetish is destroying its sense of freedom
In Anthony Mann's 1950 Western "Winchester '73," a rare and much-desired Winchester rifle brings misery and death to the unlucky souls who manage to bring it i…
