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17 recent articles by Otis Sanford:
Gov. Bill Haslam's highly-publicized and celebrated decision granting full clemency to Cyntoia Brown is indicative of how he has governed during his two terms: a compassionate conservative moved simply by the desire to do the right thing.
After putting the kibosh on rumors about his political future, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is making a rather bold prediction of his own.
A steady flow of mostly positive economic news for Memphis and Shelby County – coupled with the solemn and tasteful commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination – was overshadowed at times by political bickering and grandstanding in 2018.
The statement contained a total of 102 words. But for a man who has served his state and country as long as Lamar Alexander has, it was remarkable for its brevity.
Will he or won’t he?
So much for civility, consensus and racial harmony.
I am willing to give the nearly 500,000 Mississippi voters the benefit of the doubt.
“Everything is not about race,” Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant boldly proclaimed this week while struggling to defend an indefensible comment from the person he handpicked to be an interim U.S. senator.
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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