There are 17 article(s) tagged Letters to the Editor:

• May 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Don’t frame property tax rate in moral terms

    ‘I’m not opposed to funding social programs, but let’s do it without pretending there’s morality in extracting money from people this way.’

    By Letters to the Editor May 24, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Moving Juneteenth from Church Park dishonors a Black hero

    “Redemption” cannot be obtained by moving the Juneteenth celebration from Church Park to Health Science Park.

    By Letters to the Editor May 08, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: For Memphis, oil pipeline benefits are ‘zero,’ risks are many

    One of the principal components of crude oil is benzene. It takes very little benzene to make a vast quantity of water completely undrinkable.

    By Letters to the Editor May 06, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Consumer Energy Alliance is ‘astroturfing’

    The Daily Memphian bills this as an opinion piece, and the author makes efforts to endear himself to us as a local, but this is not an opinion piece by a local. It is astroturfing by the oil industry.

    By Letters to the Editor May 05, 2021

• April 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Bills favor vaping industry, not public health

    House Bill 705 and Senate Bill 1047 serve to protect the tobacco industry’s financial interests and stop our ability to take local action to protect our youth.

    By Letters to the Editor April 06, 2021

• March 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Tennessee legislators ignore people’s will on gun laws

    ‘In this climate of higher crime and well-publicized and random mass shootings across America, why would our legislators choose to ignore the will of the people and loosen gun laws?’ 

    By Letters to the Editor March 30, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: New appraisals of flooded Germantown houses are unfair

    ‘I recently received a new appraisal that did not reflect the fact that my property was flooded at all. On top of this unfair/unwarranted rate, we have been informed that re-assessments will take place more often in the future to account for growing property values.’

    By Letters to the Editor March 25, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Favoring electric vehicles is ‘bad policy’

    “ ‘Zero emission’ is a misnomer. Electric vehicles must be recharged regularly using electricity generated by power plants.”

    By Letters to the Editor March 24, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Don’t eliminate comments

    Without the comment section, it is a one-way narrative of the writer, who almost always leaves out questions that need to be answered. 

    By Letters to the Editor March 19, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Standing for the Asian American community

    ‘While we have lived for a year with one type of fear and anxiety, we cannot let the COVID-19 virus stoke fear in the other.’

    By Letters to the Editor March 19, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Don’t jeopardize the Memphis Sands aquifer

    We bottled our water and sent it to Flint residents to help with their water contamination crisis, so why would we consider endangering our Memphis Sands Aquifer?

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021

  • Letters to the Editor: Grade retention and protecting the aquifer

    Paul Thomas says holding back third-graders can create long-lasting problems, and another letter writer, Duffy-Marie Arnoult, says we must protect the Memphis Sands Aquifer.

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Grade retention harms children

    “Tennessee must not fall prey to trendy political gimmicks that harm children and do not address the needs of those children learning to read.”

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021

• January 2021

  • Letter to the Editor: Houston High students say ‘fight poverty with policy’

    “Privilege ‘is not something we deserve, or are worthy of, and it is certainly not an excuse to turn a blind eye to the vastly different circumstances that one in five Memphians live under,” letter writers Jude Downing and Sophia Overstreet say. 

    By Letters to the Editor January 29, 2021

  • Letters to the Editor: Kustoff ‘should be expelled,’ Health Dept. responded with reason, respect

    One letter writer praised the Shelby County Health Department’s management of vaccine distribution at Lindenwood Christian Church.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 26, 2021

  • Letters to the Editor: ‘Kustoff should be expelled from Congress’

    ‘David Kustoff does not deserve to serve in the Congress for one more day,’ writes Louis R Pounders.

    By Letters to the Editor January 25, 2021

  • Restaurant workers: We need relief payments to survive

    “Many of us have already been living paycheck to paycheck, doing everything we can to make ends meet before the pandemic hit. Now, our hours are being cut due to the pandemic and we were already struggling to make rent and put food on the table.”

    By Letters to the Editor January 11, 2021