Letter to the Editor: Change the law that ties child support to voting
The intent of the law is not about concern for struggling single mothers, but a means of unfairly denying the right to vote to thousands of Tennesseans.
Letters to the Editor
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March 2021
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Tennessee legislators ignore people’s will on gun laws
‘In this climate of higher crime and well-publicized and random mass shootings across America, why would our legislators choose to ignore the will of the people and loosen gun laws?’
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: New appraisals of flooded Germantown houses are unfair
‘I recently received a new appraisal that did not reflect the fact that my property was flooded at all. On top of this unfair/unwarranted rate, we have been informed that re-assessments will take place more often in the future to account for growing property values.’
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Favoring electric vehicles is ‘bad policy’
“ ‘Zero emission’ is a misnomer. Electric vehicles must be recharged regularly using electricity generated by power plants.”
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Don’t eliminate comments
Without the comment section, it is a one-way narrative of the writer, who almost always leaves out questions that need to be answered.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Standing for the Asian American community
‘While we have lived for a year with one type of fear and anxiety, we cannot let the COVID-19 virus stoke fear in the other.’
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Don’t jeopardize the Memphis Sands aquifer
We bottled our water and sent it to Flint residents to help with their water contamination crisis, so why would we consider endangering our Memphis Sands Aquifer?
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Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor: Grade retention and protecting the aquifer
Paul Thomas says holding back third-graders can create long-lasting problems, and another letter writer, Duffy-Marie Arnoult, says we must protect the Memphis Sands Aquifer.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Grade retention harms children
“Tennessee must not fall prey to trendy political gimmicks that harm children and do not address the needs of those children learning to read.”
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Alisa Haushalter deserves justice
Our Health Department director sacrificed a tremendous amount personally in a difficult crisis to serve us along with the two mayors and COVID task force, and has had a major contribution in keeping us safe.
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February 2021
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Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor: Shelby County should get vaccine advice from Mississippi
“Shelby County does not need help from the federal government or Chick-fil-A or FedEx. They just need to ask our neighbors in Mississippi!”
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January 2021
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Houston High students say ‘fight poverty with policy’
“Privilege ‘is not something we deserve, or are worthy of, and it is certainly not an excuse to turn a blind eye to the vastly different circumstances that one in five Memphians live under,” letter writers Jude Downing and Sophia Overstreet say.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Pandemic widens the gulf between ‘haves, have nots’
‘Those whose careers and income streams remained intact see the pandemic very differently than those who have lost their vocations and their income, and fear losing their homes,’” writes Rev. Dr. Dorothy Sanders Wells.
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Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor: ‘Kustoff should be expelled from Congress’
‘David Kustoff does not deserve to serve in the Congress for one more day,’ writes Louis R Pounders.
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Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor: ‘I am proud of our Shelby County Health Department’
‘Many thanks to Dr. Alisa Haushalter and her team for upholding these values in the midst of a health care crisis,’ Barbara Holden Nixon writes.
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Letters to the Editor Restaurant workers: We need relief payments to survive
“Many of us have already been living paycheck to paycheck, doing everything we can to make ends meet before the pandemic hit. Now, our hours are being cut due to the pandemic and we were already struggling to make rent and put food on the table.”
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