6 recent articles by Otis Sanford:

• October 2018

  • Telling police officers to keep silent undermines investigations and cripples justice

    Picture this scenario: A man with a gun is chasing on foot another man, who may or may not be armed.

    By Otis Sanford October 18, 2018

  • Taylor Swift won’t give Bredesen an upset victory, an oversized voter turnout in Shelby County will

    Taylor Swift may have gotten all the media attention for potentially upping the vote.

    By Otis Sanford October 11, 2018

  • Trenary's legacy lives on and we're all obligated to help carry his work forward

    What might he have been thinking? And what was he saying?

    By Otis Sanford October 04, 2018

• September 2018

  • Lee seems well-positioned to break the 52-year trend of the governor’s office alternating between the two major parties - or is he?

    If you believe the polls, Republican Bill Lee is steamrolling toward victory in the Tennessee governor’s race.

    By Otis Sanford September 27, 2018

  • Potentially game-changing Blackburn-Bredesen Senate race features two strategies: national vs. local

    Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is doing all she can to nationalize her race for the U.S. Senate.

    By Otis Sanford September 20, 2018

  • Sanford’s goals: Inform, enlighten and provoke (when necessary)

    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.

    By Otis Sanford September 16, 2018