The AM/DM podcast: Veganuary makes the case for plant-based eating
Interested in a plant-based lifestyle? Newsletter editor Bianca Phillips has thoughts and tips.
Mary Cashiola
News Editor
Mary Cashiola has been a Memphis journalist for nearly two decades, beginning her career covering city government and local neighborhoods at the Memphis Flyer before being hired by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.
She was also the managing editor of the Memphis Business Journal, which was named one of the top 10 Best Designed Newspapers in the world by the Society of News Design while she was there.
There are 676 articles by Mary Cashiola :
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January 2026
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December 2025
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Ask Me Anything edition
During the AM/DM AMA, we talk about media bias, xAI and what might happen with The Station.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: What Memphians think about the task force
We know how many of Memphis’ elected officials feel about the task force, but what about regular people, just trying to live their lives? What do they think?
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: 2026 begins
After the countdowns and the ball drops, there’s still plenty happening this week.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: What to do on the last weekend of the year
If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, hopefully you like music or comedy. Or both.
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Collierville The AM/DM podcast: Collierville looks to its future
A new strategic plan should take Collierville into 2050, but what that will look like — and what it will mean for the town — is still up in the air.
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Ford Megasite The AM/DM podcast: BlueOval’s pivot to gas-powered trucks
The shift to gas-powered trucks means West Tennessee isn’t tied to the nation’s precarious EV market.
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Elections The AM/DM podcast: The 2026 election season starts ... now
Because of term limits, Shelby County will see a new mayor, new sheriff and new county clerk — positions currently held by Lee Harris, Floyd Bonner Jr. and Wanda Halbert, respectively — elected in 2026.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Christmas music and holiday spirit
We’re wrapping ourselves in holiday music and movies this week.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: The future of Liberty Park
Liberty Park was supposed to be an economic catalyst for Memphis. It still could be, but so far, the tax growth it needs hasn’t come to fruition.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: The Station’s next stop — back to the alcohol board
The Station is headed back to the City of Memphis’ Alcohol Commission at 9 a.m. this morning, and the would-be liquor store hopes it’ll be granted a license.
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Education The AM/DM podcast: MSCS opens security facility, active shooter simulator
Today, we’re talking to enterprise reporter Laura Testino about her first-hand look inside the facility and what the district hopes to accomplish.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: What will Collierville look like in 2050?
It’s the last full, holiday-free week of the year and time to get business done.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Wheel of Fortune, ‘Friday’ party and Phillips on a float
This weekend is awash in holiday parades — and you can even see Daily Memphian newsletter editor Bianca Phillips in person, during a Downtown parade.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Inside the FBI’s Operation Viper
Before there was the Memphis Safe Task Force, there was Viper, an FBI operation that occurred very quietly over the past summer.
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Public Safety The AM/DM podcast: Tales from inside 201
For the past year and a half, the Shelby County Jail — commonly known as 201 Poplar — has been over its 2,400-inmate capacity.
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Memphis Tigers Football The AM/DM podcast: At U of M, Huff is in
Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola talks to University of Memphis football reporter Frank Bonner about where the program is now, how important the new coach is for the university and what to know as the Tigers go into the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa.
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Metro The AM/DM: The year’s best networking, plus holiday rom-coms
Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Annual Chairman’s Luncheon, one of the best local networking events of the year — if you ask Cashiola.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: The ‘crystal show,’ tree lighting and latte art
This weekend is St. Jude Memphis Marathon weekend, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops. It some ways, it just keeps going ... for 26.2 miles.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: ‘A Christmas Carol,’ ‘Rudolph’ and ‘Die Hard’
Today, The Daily Memphian’s resident theater kid Alys Drake, who also writes our monthly show roundup, takes us through December’s offerings.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Riding with a task force warrant team
Public safety reporter Aarron Fleming recently got an inside look at the day-to-day operations during a ride-along with Warrant Team Bravo, as they moved to find and arrest a homicide suspect.
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Food The AM/DM podcast: The return of Jennifer Chandler
Food writer Jennifer Chandler has brought her “Recipe Exchange” back to The Daily Memphian.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Why The Daily Memphian is a nonprofit
In advance of GivingTuesday, editorial director Mary Cashiola and Sarah Leach, The Daily Memphian’s director of fundraising and development, talk about the news site’s role as a nonprofit, the free content the site provides and goals for the day.
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November 2025
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Black Friday and more weekend fun
Need ideas for gifts this season? We’ve got you covered.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Dating, apps and the Bluff City
If you’re single and not “on the apps,” you’re not really trying to find love.
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