Opinion: We must rename Audubon Park
“My concern is with a controversial name that is still attached to one of this city’s most prominent and widely used regional parks ... Audubon Park, named for artist and naturalist John James Audubon.”
Topic: Guest Columns
RSSThere are 172 article(s) tagged Guest Columns:
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January 2023
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Opinion: TVA does not invest in West Tennessee
“Heaping praise on power companies that merely do what they are supposed to do is pointless. The now-exposed reality is that TVA is no more reliable than its neighboring utilities.”
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MPD responds to officer’s frustrations about vehicle pursuit policies
“Capturing a suspect is important. However, the safety of innocent bystanders and motorists is paramount,” MPD says in response to officer’s concerns about limitations during vehicle pursuit.
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Memphis cop sounds off: Policy handcuffs us from doing our jobs
An MPD officer says the department’s policies leave many officers demoralized and frustrated – and lets criminals get away with crime too often.
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Opinion: BlueCross’ decision shows how competition can lower health care prices
“BlueCross BlueShield’s move is a welcome sign of the emergence of a competitive, price-transparent health care marketplace, which is needed to reverse runaway costs driven by hospital overcharging.”
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Opinion: Memphis is not forgotten
“Don’t give up. Change is happening. Your voice is being heard at the state level — and being heard clearly.”
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Opinion: Memphians are sick and tired of excuses about crime
The case for building a bigger local jail, adding more judges and courtrooms, and changing how bail is handled.
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Garner: Making healthy changes for the new year and beyond
“Armed with a bit of knowledge, you can change little things to help out your future.”
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December 2022
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Opinion: MLGW must communicate better
“Infrastructure issues in Memphis are a big, expensive problem. However, even though it’s just a band-aid, developing a more effective communication system is a small step that MLGW can take to ensure customers are informed and safe.”
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Guest Column: A new approach to combat blighted, vacant lots
“If we adopted a new approach to vacant land, we could actually reduce the amount of work that is required — and money that is spent — by our city as it intervenes and attempts to maintain health and safety at abandoned land.”
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Opinion: BlueCross BlueShield Tennessee strong-arms frontline doctors
“For more than two years, our heroic clinicians have risked their safety while treating patients on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic in communities large and small.”
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Guest Column: Memories of Stax, the late Jim Stewart and Isaac Hayes’ powder blue Caddy
“Stax history is about the music but also about the integration and racial healing in Memphis and the nation.”
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Garner: Germantown got an excellent deal on the 3Gs
“High hopes” that the county commission and the Shelby County Mayor would build trust were hurt by how the deal was announced. “The chasm seems to have widened through actions like these.”
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Echols: A Christmas column that isn’t tinsel and twinkles
“Today’s column is about the ways the evil of this world threatens humanity, both through our own choices, and through the spiritual forces in and at work around us. Which is exactly the reason for Christmas.”
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Opinion: A ‘new and purely authentic’ idea for the Coliseum
“Support Chris Reyes and his quest for a two-year lease of 15,000 square feet inside the Coliseum so he can expand and build his incredible interactive playground.”
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Opinion: Some conservative women support abortion rights
Conservative Kristina Garner writes about her support of limited government, individual freedoms, the right to bear arms, a strong military, and the importance of state and local rights. But on abortion, she writes that decades of discrimination against women lead her and many other conservatives to disagree with the Republican Party’s position.
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Opinion: Why recycling could mean a cleaner Tennessee
The Tennessee CLEAN Act is aimed at bringing together industries, organizations and consumers to put an end to litter in Tennessee by preventing products from becoming litter in the first place.
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November 2022
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Echols: Thanksgiving traditions for the modern family
“The modern American — me, included — can barely sit through a wheat-harvesting description without checking her phone for something a tad more interesting.”
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Guest Column: A first-time voter reflects on the importance — and the challenges — of voting
“Every vote does indeed count. But election information should be more accessible to everyone, and candidates need to spend time with who they want to represent.”
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Guest Column: Advice from a poll worker a week after Election Day
“We need more citizens preparing themselves to vote by weighing the choices to be made, making informed choices about their votes, and then showing up to vote.”
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Opinion: Tackling injustice at the roots
“It’s time to move past surface-level ‘fixes’ that blame the community for the problems that systems create. We believe that communities, particularly communities of color, deeply and intimately understand the problem and therefore hold the transformative solutions that will last.”
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Echols: ‘My Magnificent Lover’
“Real, gut-level laughter is a gift from God; laughter was his design. It’s also a wildly underestimated instrument of light for both children and adults. It has the power to cut through some dark moments, and we need tools that have power like that right now.”
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Guest Column: Homeless — but not without hope — in Memphis
“From one end of the state to the other, we have children sleeping on the floors of government offices. There are more than 9,000 foster children in Tennessee, but less than half as many homes exist to care for them.”
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Opinion: Abortion should get you to the polls (and if I was a man, maybe you’d listen)
“Girls and women in Tennessee need their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons to step up and vote to end the government’s regulation of women’s bodies.”
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Opinion: Why I’m supporting Brent Taylor for state senator
“Brent’s experiences have equipped him to make a positive impact in the state Senate. He will be the voice in the Tennessee legislature desperately needed for Shelby County.”
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