Conaway: Scratches don’t define life; they define experience
I had no idea my car had that many scratches. Then I remembered the mounting and unmounting of the luggage carrier for trips to the beach and trips here and there.
Topic: opinion
RSSThere are 168 article(s) tagged opinion:
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July 2024
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Guest Column: Tennessee is successful when Memphis leads
“Without question, Memphis is a great city. Now, one of the world’s richest men wants to join us. We welcome and celebrate his investment, but aren’t surprised.”
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Echols: ‘Burning Bushes Everywhere’
“For several years, I’ve been struggling to pray. For one thing, it’s hard not to get distracted. Thoughts fire this way and that, like ricocheting pinballs.”
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Conaway: ‘I Want You’ is still a message for today
In this election, you can save this country from four years of chaos, from power used for revenge and from power used to pardon the guilty and convict the innocent.
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June 2024
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Conaway: Musk and possibly the most pertinent opinions
If the world’s richest man was going to build his “gigafactory of compute” in Atlanta or Nashville, they’d be blowing so hard, there’d be tornado watches.
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Opinion: Let Memphis choose its own leadership
“It is obvious to me our state government does not care about the residents of Memphis unless ... Republican politicians can use our city as a breeding ground to exploit our problems.”
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Greenstein: Family reunions are ‘spiritual reminders’
“I view summer family reunions as spiritual reminders for what sets people apart from other species. As cute as dogs are, you don’t see animals in the wild reuniting across generations. Only human beings do that.”
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Morris: Shut out the negative and focus on what matters
“A city is made up of its people, and we have beautiful people. ... Every day, I come away inspired by the hardworking souls who go unseen in our midst.”
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Echols: ‘It’s worth stepping out and responding’
“I know I have inherited much of who I am from my dad, who inherited it from his mom. ... The three of us look at life from the same vantage point.”
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Guest Column: What happens when children learn differently?
“If children are learning, then they can begin to think with more complexity, solve bigger problems and experience success. ... If they are learning, they have hope.”
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Opinion: Reclaimed wastewater is a real solution
“It is a real solution to protect the quantity as well as quality of our drinking water and to serve as an economic-development tool for other industries with environmental commitments.”
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Echols: ‘I Need to Go Somewhere’
“There’s something about a good long road trip that creates space for your mind to unwind.”
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May 2024
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Greenstein: ‘We can all change the world’
“Too often we underestimate our own ability to make a difference in another human life, and we fail to appreciate that singular ability in others as well.”
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Opinion: An opportunity to slash credit-card fees is before the US Senate
“The impact of increased competition cannot be understated, considering for small businesses in our state these savings could mean the difference between staying afloat and shutting their doors.”
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Guest Column: Family game night is more important than you think
“Hands-on exploration and group play are at the heart of the Children’s Museum of Memphis. Now, you and the young learners in your life can take on both together.”
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Echols: ‘Trees are remarkable storytellers’
“The trunk that reaches to the heavens is telling my family’s story in real time, and real time is passing much more quickly than anyone ever told me it would.”
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Narcisse: ‘It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where our children are?’
“Accounting for the lives, time and experiences of the young people in our community is not the sole responsibility of parents. We are each responsible.”
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Opinion: Now is the time to add to the MLGW board
“I propose increasing MLGW’s board to seven voting members: five who live in Memphis and two who live outside Memphis.”
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Guest Column: Education is bigger than grades, it’s preparation for life
“We cannot just wait, though, until students reach our doors as adults. We have to reach them earlier and younger; we cannot, however, do it alone.”
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Guest Column: Uniting against truancy and chronic absenteeism
“Chronic absenteeism has a devastating impact on a child’s achievement and long-term potential. However, we refuse to accept this as fate; instead, we view it as a call to action for our entire community.”
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Conaway: ‘Light it up,’ he told the driver
“In a world either on fire or simmering, in a country dangerously divided, in a challenged city, perspective returns in an ambulance.”
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April 2024
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Echols: ‘Either way, I was a big, fat jerk’
This is an open letter to the woman I had an embarrassingly vigorous yelling match about a parking spot in front of the UPS store on Colonial Road last Tuesday.
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Greenstein: ‘Freedom from slavery is the essence’ of Passover
“The liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage has become a powerful symbol of redemption not only for the Jewish people, but for the entire world.”
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Opinion: Death of police officer requires action, accountability
“Keeping criminals off our streets and encouraging good parenting are crucial steps in improving public safety in Tennessee,” state Rep. John Gillespie, R-Memphis, writes. “This remains my priority.”
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Sanford: Orange Mound shooting spree struck a nerve. But we cannot concede defeat.
We’ve had plenty of rallies, vigils and marches. We’ve created one anti-violence group after another. We’ve floated balloons as well as ideas. And still, the deaths keep coming.
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