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9 recent articles by Otis Sanford:
Phil Bredesen spent his last four minutes and 12 seconds in the spotlight Tuesday night coming to grips with the sobering reality that his time in politics is over.
“People make choices. Choices make history.”
The politics of fear and division, playing out at the national level, has literally hit home.
Picture this scenario: A man with a gun is chasing on foot another man, who may or may not be armed.
Taylor Swift may have gotten all the media attention for potentially upping the vote.
What might he have been thinking? And what was he saying?
If you believe the polls, Republican Bill Lee is steamrolling toward victory in the Tennessee governor’s race.
Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is doing all she can to nationalize her race for the U.S. Senate.
It was unusually cold in Memphis – even for the dead of winter – with a couple inches of fresh snow on the ground when I checked in at the metro desk of The Commercial Appeal on Jan. 10, 1977, for my first day as a general assignment reporter. My initial assignment, of course, was to write a weather story. Then as now, even a minor snowfall is a serious disruptor in Memphis and front-page news.
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