Calkins: Reopen Memphis? Empty shops and restaurants show it’ll take more than mayors to do that
The government didn't shut down the economy. COVID-19 did that. So it'll take more than the government to open Memphis back up.
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May 2020
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Calkins: Ready or not, Memphis, it’s time to start reopening. So let’s not screw it up
Memphis and Shelby County will start reopening for business Monday. It's up to Memphians to make sure it's not the disaster many expect.
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Calkins: A dog, his owner — and one wild & crazy parade
You've seen the parades all over town, haven't you? For birthdays and elementary schools and the like? Well, they had one at Trezevant Manor Thursday. It was the happiest parade of them all.
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April 2020
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Calkins: Coronavirus canceled his first marathon. So he ran it anyway. Alone.
Nate Franklin trained to run his first marathon on his 26th birthday. When it was postponed by COVID-19, he decided to run it anyway. It's a lesson for us all.
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Former Memphis Tiger dies of COVID-19
Dennis Bradshaw, former quarterback at the University of Memphis, died Saturday of COVID-19 at the age of 62.
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Calkins: A bittersweet day as Tyler Harris decides to leave the city he loves
Tyler Harris has decided to transfer. With the expected arrival of Virginia Tech transfer Landers Nolley, it makes all the sense in the world. But Memphis fans should be forever grateful to Harris for reaffirming the connection between the Tigers and the town.
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Calkins: For Rev. Eli Morris and Hope Church, getting COVID-19 may have been an answered prayer
Eli Morris is feeling better after testing positive for COVID-19. Now he and the rest of the clergy at Hope Church are focusing on those in the community who are facing the same challenges he faced — usually with fewer resources.
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Calkins: How a 62-year-old Marine named Sgt. Tony is winning Facebook Live
Tony Ludlow started his wise-cracking boot camp more than 20 years ago. Now he's beaming it out on Facebook Live.
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Calkins: My teenage son cut my hair and . . .
Memphians are getting shaggier as part of life under coronavirus isolation. So, our columnist ventured into Calkins Clip Club for a trim by a teenager with a pair of shears.
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Calkins: What happens when a St. Jude kid plays golf in the pandemic
Dakota Cunningham is the St. Jude patient who sank a 5-foot putt for $50,000 at the World Golf Championship-FedEx St. Jude Invitational last summer. This past Thursday, he did better than that.
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Calkins: No, there won’t be football
Dr. Jon McCullers loves sports as much as you do. But he has some bad news.
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Calkins: Dan Spector was Shelby County’s death number 3 — and a whole lot more
Dan Spector died Tuesday of COVID-19. He loved the Tigers, Judaism, politics, Midtown, newspapers, the arts — and a brilliant white flower that bloomed just one night a year.
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March 2020
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Memphis kindness blog, March 30: Generosity infects Starbucks
Across the Memphis area, people are reaching out to others with gestures of kindness and generosity.
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Calkins: My friend tested positive for COVID-19 — but she went all over Memphis first
You want to know why you should take social distancing seriously? Meet a nurse I know. She lives in Memphis. She tested positive for COVID-19. And y'all just might have crossed paths before the test results came back.
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Calkins: Even in a pandemic, the high school lunch table endures
There's no lunch table with classes canceled, unless a group of friends gather via technology to debate sports, dating and the winner of a fight between a gorilla and a bear.
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Calkins: In a time of pandemic, can construction paper save us all?
Across-the-street neighbors Melinda Henson and Laura Allen realized they weren't seeing as much of each other as they should. So they took it upon themselves to connect as only two elementary school teachers could. In the process, they taught a lesson to us all.
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Calkins: The class of 2020, and a lost senior spring
The Class of 2020 will not have the senior spring that the rest of us had. It may shape them in important and lasting ways.
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Calkins: Help us ‘crazy’ Memphians save local journalism
Memphians are just audacious enough to think they can can find solutions. That’s what defines us as much as anything else. We roll up our sleeves. We innovate. And at a time when the model for local journalism is broken — but the need for local journalism is as keen as ever — Memphians have come up with a solution to that. But it needs you.
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Calkins: Yes, it’s true! They had a (very happy) coronavirus parade!
The teachers at Bailey Station Elementary missed their students. So they threw a giant (no joking) coronavirus parade!
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Calkins: The Bread Emergency (from the inside)
Scotty Oates, 29, understands the 'hell' of living inside the coronavirus crisis. No, Oates is not a doctor. He's a bread man.
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Calkins: Taylor Berger shutters Railgarten and Rec Room — and already misses Memphis spring
Taylor Berger and his partners made the hard decision to close Railgarten, Rec Room and Highland Axe & Rec. What does that mean for his 100 employees? And what does that mean for the rest of us?
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Calkins: A night the Memphis Tigers deserved
The 100th season of Memphis Tiger basketball wasn’t the grand romp everyone expected. But the last home game was certainly sweet.
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February 2020
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Calkins: James Wiseman is not the villain — but he’s not telling the truth
The NCAA is the bad guy in the James Wiseman story. But Wiseman is the one who chose to walk away.
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Calkins: Only death could keep her from Memphis basketball
For the first time in 26 years, Ginge Robinson missed a Memphis home game. Her absence — Robinson died over the weekend at the age of 84 — reminded us why Memphis basketball matters.
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Calkins: Ripping Penny Hardaway for this season isn’t ‘hilarious’ — it’s dumb
It's ridiculous — and ungrateful — for Memphis fans to criticize Penny Hardaway in this calamitous year.
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