Conaway: Around here, if you look closely, you’ll find a connection
“In that wonderful Memphis sort of way of zero degrees of separation from anybody and anything in the rest of the world, I’m related to Teddy Roosevelt.”
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July 2022
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Grizzlies Insider: Did Memphis or Pistons wear it better?
“We’ll let you finish Detroit, but these are still the hardest teal unis in NBA history,” the Grizzlies said on Instagram.
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The Early Word: Party is over at Emerge Memphis, and Wiseacre drops Tiny Bomb on Texas
An adult suspect has been arrested in Rev. Autura Eason-Williams’ death, auto thefts are on the rise and the former Office Depot is set to become apartments.
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Table Talk: Work trips, vacations and staycations offer world of dining options
Two Memphis restaurants named as “crave-worthy restaurants across the South” as eateries more and more becomes reasons to travel, not just part of a trip.
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The Early Word: Long license plate lines are gone, and Archer Malmo has 140 new owners
Memphis has a quality housing problem, the City Council looks over the debt cliff and Tigers football could have a “big year.”
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Calkins: It’s not just a big year for Memphis football. It may be the biggest one yet.
The stakes have never been higher for Ryan Silverfield and Memphis football. Why 2022 will be one of the most important seasons in program history.
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Inked: Cycle Shop construction begins, archimania designing $55M TCAT BlueOval campus
This week’s Inked shares news on updates with the historic Cycle Shop and Supply building, the Northside High School redevelopment project, archimania’s TCAT BlueOval campus design and a new dual-brand hotel in the Medical District.
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Bucking national trends, affordable housing in Memphis is a problem of quality, not quantity
Even as housing prices are rising substantially in some parts of the area, the value of housing in other areas has been stagnant or even falling.
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Grizzlies notebook: Summer league leftovers and trade market shifters
Summer league finished up more than a week ago, but not everything could be squeezed into the features that came from Las Vegas. Here are a couple more items on the Memphis rookies and younger players.
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Crime Crisis: How MPD is deploying its newest recruits
The department’s No. 1 goal, according to its assistant chief of police services, is to expedite the 911 response time.
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High school football 2022: MAHS’ loss is MASE’s gain
With the arrival of a new head coach and 15 players who started for MAHS last year before the charter school closed, MASE is a legit threat for a deep postseason run.
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The Early Word: A look at Joris Ray’s state of (alleged) affairs; plus, monkeypox is here
A second suspect has been charged in Rev. Autura Eason-Williams’ death, Graceland is having money problems and there’s a new speakeasy coming to South Main (but you’ll need a password to get in).
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Westwood football coach resigns after 6 months on job
On the first day Tennessee schools are allowed to practice in full pads, Devin Scates announced he’s leaving. He replaced the previous coach who’d quit three games into the 2021 season.
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Grizzlies Mailbag: Are the Grizzlies set up to take a step back?
A few months after notching the NBA’s second best record, are the Grizzlies poised to take a step back? How will the team replace the injured Jaren Jackson Jr. In this mid-summer Grizzlies Mailbag, answers to those and other questions.
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Memphian wrote the book(s) on Baldrige quality movement
Diamond in the bluff: Former jeweler Donn Fisher’s out-of-the-box thinking led him to judge entries for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and his expertise in improving quality and productivity is recognized internationally.
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Vitalant’s David Williams’ nonprofit journey comes full circle
David Williams is a longtime dynamo in the city’s nonprofit sphere with a career dating back to the 1970s. At 68, he persists in his personal mission of serving nonprofits that serve disadvantaged populations in Memphis.
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The Early Word: Memphis Police hope to improve 911, and Crisis Center takes calls to 988
TONE responds to an unauthorized pro-abortion banner at Orange Mound Tower, the federal building gets a new name, and the suburbs map out park plans.
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A bright, green future: suburban municipalities map park plans
Suburban communities are mapping out their goals for parks over the next several years.
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Contractor for FedEx Ground says network in ‘far more peril than anyone realizes’
FedEx Corp. counters that the more than 6,000 service provider businesses in its Ground network earned an average revenue of $2.3 million in 2021.
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Calkins: A St. Jude survivor competed in the World Series of Poker — and cashed big
A former Memphian just won more than half a million dollars at the World Series of Poker. But the best part of his story? He’s alive because of St. Jude.
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The Early Word: Bryant’s Breakfast goes big, and Scott Brockman prepares for departure
A local man was convicted for participating in the Jan. 6 riot, the DA’s office seeks an adult transfer for the teen who killed Rev. Autura Eason-Williams and rival coaches discuss Penny Hardaway’s strategy.
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Grizzlies Insider: Memphis rookies plan to take up golf
“We always used to go to Topgolf as a team back at VCU,” Memphis Grizzlies rookie Vince Williams Jr. said. “It was really fun. I figured I might as well start to do the real thing.”
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What opposing coaches think of Hardaway and the Tigers
In his fifth year at the University of Memphis, Penny Hardaway has assembled his most experienced roster ever. He’s added AAC Player of the Year Kendric Davis. He’s added talented wing players Emmanuel Akot and Keonte Kennedy. -
Conaway: Whistling isn’t evil. Whistling something evil is evil.
“The terms Republican and Democrat have become dog whistles to gather on the far right and far left. The colors red and blue, and the words conservative and liberal have been co-opted into whistles.”
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The Early Word: Teen charged in Eason-Williams death; 96X offers ‘alternative’ to commercial radio
New Melrose High coach is ready for some football, Felicia Suzanne’s is one step closer to reopening and about 1,000 Black attorneys and judges are coming to Memphis.
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