Opinion: Extending term limits is about a desire to stay in power
Let’s not kid ourselves: Council’s effort to extend term limits is not about ensuring a better and more equitable government.
Bryce W. Ashby
Bryce W. Ashby is an attorney with Donati Law, PLLC, and the board chair of Latino Memphis.
There are 9 articles by Bryce W. Ashby :
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June 2022
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Elections
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April 2021
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Opinion Opinion: Vaccine passports have long been required by schools
At various times throughout our history, all levels of government have mandated vaccines and not once have we drifted down that slippery slope towards tyranny.
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July 2020
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guest column
OpinionOpinion: Who counts in America?
Leaving undocumented people out of the census mirrors a more subtle indifference to the Latinx community here in Memphis. Recent reporting shows Hispanics are contracting 28% of all COVID-19 cases in Shelby County, while comprising only 10% of residents.
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June 2020
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guest column
OpinionIt’s time for a radical rethinking of police structure
We offer three suggestions for concrete steps to reduce the disconnect between our police and our community.
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April 2020
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GUEST COLUMN
OpinionOur pandemic workforce relies on immigrants
Many of the heroes who are attending to the sick and dying in our hospitals are immigrants: 25% of physicians in the United States are foreign-born, and 1.5 million immigrants are employed as doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
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February 2020
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Opinion Indigence among us
Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.
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August 2019
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Opinion Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize this Republican Party
In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools.
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May 2019
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Guest Columnists Partial judges among us
About 100 years ago, two murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, captivated our nation and the world. Two Italian immigrants – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti – were accused, convicted of the crimes and executed in a Massachusetts electric chair in 1927.
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April 2019
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Guest Columnists Immigration: ‘The best problem’
In Memphis, new immigrants make up just over 5 percent of the metro population, but account for 9 percent of the area's business owners.
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