Opinion: Has Amazon encroached on the Adopt-A-School Program?
“With business giant Amazon adopting 20 schools in Memphis I am concerned that Amazon has encroached on Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ long-established Adopt-A-School program.”
Topic: Guest Columns
RSSThere are 179 article(s) tagged Guest Columns:
-
May 2023
-
-
Opinion: Fighting back against a ‘crime-induced public health crisis’
“Voter sentiment about our city’s crippling crime epidemic transcends socioeconomic, gender, racial and ethnic backgrounds. Actual voters want violent, repeat offenders off the streets, legally. They want the bail ‘loopholes’ closed for these offenders who should be held in jail and timely prosecuted.”
-
Opinion: Memphis City Council did not back down on gun reform
“We must continue to let our state representatives know how their gun laws have completely upended our city and that we demand Tennessee’s urban cities be given the authority to impose their own firearm laws. It won’t be a quick or easy road.”
-
Opinion: For a safer Memphis, bail reform is the right solution
“Loud and powerful opponents of progress, such as Mayor Jim Strickland, have wrongly claimed that Shelby County’s pretrial policies undermine public safety. There is no data behind his claims.”
-
Guest Column: ‘People crave cities. They crave community.’
“Our shared future can only be created in community. And to do that, we’ll need to use the most efficient and productive platform humanity has yet devised: a bustling, busy, connected urban center.”
-
Opinion: The City of Memphis must get serious about affordable housing
“The City of Memphis’ funding of its Affordable Housing Trust Fund has not been near enough. And it has lagged behind the funding in other peer cities.”
-
Opinion: Dear City of Memphis, Please text me if there’s a shooter at large
“The City of Memphis should utilize the same tools that its colleges and universities and schools do when an imminent threat exists.”
-
Opinion: How to take guns out of the hands of dangerous actors
“This is not a quick fix on a long-term and wide-reaching issue, but it is a workable start in moving toward and safer and healthier Tennessee for all of us.”
-
Opinion: New legislation will reduce violent crime in Memphis
State Senator Brent Taylor discusses increasing penalties for certain violent crimes and proposed legislation that seeks to stem the rise in juvenile crime.
-
-
April 2023
-
Opinion: Independent study could reopen MLGW/TVA debate
“The nationally-recognized firm Enervision, is expected to submit its analysis to City Hall before year-end, a potential game-changer that MLGW will not acknowledge.”
-
Opinion: What the mayor’s energy report really says
“The mayor’s report not only had different conclusions than those that were reported, but they elaborated on specific factors in which MLGW’s actions when it issued an RFP were inadequate and unprofessional.”
-
Opinion: Seeking refuge in America – and Memphis
“Because of the sanitation workers’ strike and the tragic killing of Martin Luther King Jr. 55 years ago, Memphis has become a welcoming place for refugees and people fleeing unimaginable horrors back home.”
-
Opinion: ‘Short-sighted officials with a liberal agenda’ help spread crime
“We can’t solve the poverty and cultural issues that plague our community in the short or even medium term. But we can build more prisons, with an emphasis on reform.”
-
Opinion: When it comes to guns, ‘Stop talking to me about evil’
“The truth is that it is much easier for us to blame some dark and abstract force than to acknowledge our own shortcomings as a nation.”
-
Opinion: A former Republican elected official calls out the legislature
A former long-time Republican and elected official on the General Assembly’s treatment of the Tennessee Three: “How our community and leaders respond in this moment will determine if democracy can survive.”
-
Opinion: Health Department must protect from ‘invisible threat’ of EtO
“Community members shouldn’t have to wait years for relief. Instead of making excuses and dodging questions, the Shelby County Health Department needs to act now to make the facility reduce its emissions or — if it continues to refuse — shut down completely.”
-
Opinion: Like the Tennessee Three, it’s time to speak up for gun reform
“While my voice is just one that will likely go unheard by itself, I know it won’t be ignored as part of the larger, necessary movement that is already growing in this state, a movement that is being led by our children and the Tennessee Three.”
-
Opinion: King’s preaching on justice — and on faith
“Would that Memphis and its surrounding communities realize King’s dream and be a compelling model for the nation.”
-
-
March 2023
-
Opinion: Partisanship has no place in Memphis
“To unite Memphians around solving Memphis’ problems for Memphis’ future, we need nonpartisanship. We need to keep nonpartisanship in City Hall and bring it back to our county government.”
-
Guest Column: Saved by science — a cancer survivor goes to Washington
“My advocacy work has a purpose. I have a purpose. And as long as I’m able to advocate, I will continue to fight for others with melanoma.”
-
Opinion: Arming teachers won’t make schools safer
“In addition to being a teacher, all three of my own children attend public schools. Like everyone, I want to keep them safe. I want to keep my students safe. Putting more guns into schools is not the answer.”
-
Opinion: Almost every major crime begins with a stolen car
A former MPD officer talks about his experiences on the police department’s Auto-Theft Task Force and the juveniles he encountered — repeatedly — during his time on the force.
-
Opinion: ‘Children deserve diverse library collections that educate, inspire and challenge them’
“As my school librarian taught me, not all books are right for every reader, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t right for the library.”
-
Echols: ‘But still I wonder’
“While we might not agree on where to get the best pizza in town or which is the best Memphis in May band, we may find we totally see eye-to-eye on the ideal spot to catch a stunning sunset.”
-
Guest Column: Ron Terry ‘considered everyone a colleague and his friend’
“Those of us in Memphis fortunate enough to have known Ron Terry, and even those who didn’t, have one thing in common: We are better off because Ron Terry called Memphis home.”
-