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.”
Topic: guest column
RSSThere are 42 article(s) tagged guest column:
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May 2024
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Guest Column: How my father’s legacy can heal our city, nation and world
“To honor my father, let’s build a post-pandemic community full of duty, honor and country.”
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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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April 2024
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Guest Column: Regional One and UT embark on ‘transformational journey’
“We are focused on making our vision of bringing an academic medical center to Memphis a reality and transforming Memphis and the Mid-South into a healthier, more vibrant place to live and work.”
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Guest Column: Economic opportunity for Memphis women is a ‘top priority’
“Memphis women earned 82% of what their male counterparts earned. ... But by working together, we can make an impact.”
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February 2024
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Guest Column: Memphis must do more to remember Echol Cole and Robert Walker
“Although there is a small historical marker in honor of Cole and Walker in Memphis, their names are not as well-known as many civil rights icons.”
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April 2022
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Guest column: Affordable health care key to helping small business prosper
“... it’s of vital importance that we, as a community, take care of our small businesses.”
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Guest column: Solutions to homeownership challenges critical to city’s well-being
“The current circumstances are pricing nearly all low-income Memphians, and an exponentially increasing number of middle-income Memphians, out of the housing market entirely,” says Amy Schaftlein of United Housing Inc.
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Guest column: How guns became the leading cause of death among children
“For most of my long life, car crashes, cancer, drowning and sudden infant death were the leading causes of death for kids – not guns.”
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March 2022
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Guest column: What is the value of humility?
“Seeing me struggle, my friend Dave took the pack off my back and began carrying it for me. It was a humbling experience, one that made me think deeply about the virtue of humility.”
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February 2022
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Guest Column: Discovering a ‘hidden gem’ of Memphis’ musical past
“A few years back, Jem Cohen, who co-owns Fond Object shop, indulged me when I asked him to play an interesting-looking record that caught my eye in one of his bins.”
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Guest column: Focus on the good of social media
When teens learn to deal positively with the challenges of social media, they build emotional awareness and intelligence and become more resilient.
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Guest column: What if we lived believing God loved us?
Scott Morris: “What if more of us could truly believe God loves us in the peace-giving way of my patient all those years ago? How would we approach the complexity of an ongoing pandemic and other dangers life gives us?”
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Guest column: How local business leaders can help with the crime crisis
In addition to continuing creating jobs for Memphians, what can Memphis business leaders do to help so that everyone feels safer in their communities?
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January 2022
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Guest column: Dallas synagogue attack shows nothing subtle about antisemitism
“I know we all stand and cheer for Rabbi Charlie and his courage. But unless we stand up and shout down every unkind word directed toward Jews when we first hear it, we let the next act of violence on Jews begin to take root.”
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Guest Column: FTC cracks down on CBD claims
In an initiative called Operation CBDeceit, the FTC reached settlements with seven more companies it alleged were making unsubstantiated claims about their CBD products.
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December 2021
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Guest column: How music can help heal
Historically, it is music that has always been there for us in times of crisis.
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Guest column: Regulators shut down crooked charitable fundraisers
The fundraising companies kept as much as 90 cents of every dollar raised and, according to the FTC, very little of the money they actually delivered to the charities was used for the purposes they claimed.
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Opinion: TVA gets undue credit for low-cost utilities
While I agreed with results stated in the article, I felt it was misleading and it ignored the real reason for the MLGW DOXO ranking. Moreover, it grants undue credit to TVA, our wholesale electricity provider, when exactly the opposite is true.
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November 2021
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Guest column: Let’s fight crime, not each other
While we have a small segment of our population wreaking havoc across the city, the “stand-up” citizens argue with each other about what to do and who’s to blame.
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Guest column: Listen to our youth when tragedies happen
If leaders would listen to our youth, they would explain in depth why an allocation of resources should be shifted away from policing and into counseling.
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September 2021
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Opinion: Why we need a strong and independent public health service
“To deploy truly lifesaving public health care in this pandemic requires a spirit of self-government primarily motivated by love of neighbor and a sense of personal responsibility.”
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Guest Column: Taking the privilege of rest
I expected our team to come back refreshed and ready to meet new challenges. But our post-sabbatical survey told us that this time had an even deeper impact.
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August 2021
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Opinion: Seat belts and masking
In our infectious disease practice, one COVID death every few days is now common. Yes, these deaths could have been prevented by vaccination, but they could also have been prevented through masking.
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