Karen Carrier, who started Memphis restaurants including The Beauty Shop, DKDC and Mollie Fontaine, joins Eric Barnes for this week’s episode of “The Sidebar.”

“What we gain instead is something far more valuable: purpose, friendships and the knowledge that we are making a difference.”

“I do not feel my tax dollars should be spent on a legal fight that seems to be something that everyone has allowed to go too far. We have too many other needs in the town — things that my tax dollars in the General Fund should be going to.”

Are you ready for it? Here are today’s sudokus. 

Today’s puzzle is of a tree at T.O. Fuller State Park and was taken by Wes Hale. 

Are you a Wordle fan? Try WordRow, a similar game. It’s free to play. 

Kyle Petty, his dad Richard “The King” Petty and several others taking part in the Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America held a fan event at the Guest House at Graceland.

“Why are (lawmakers) afraid of having to work for everyone’s vote?” asked a Memphis community organizer as people across the state and beyond came to protest a Republican-led effort to redraw the state’s congressional map.

Primary elections in Shelby County draw the lowest voter turnout. Considering that, overall turnout in Tuesday’s election was higher than expected.

Memphis jumped out to a 3-0 lead in both games. The Redbirds maintain their precarious lead in the International League standings.

The Grizzlies will have three picks in next month’s NBA Draft. What “bigs” should Memphis consider with those picks?

“I normally would have said no to a skewered sea creature, but as The Daily Memphian’s new food reporter, I know there are times I’ll need to get out of my culinary comfort zone.”

“One need not support any particular politician to recognize that intentionally fragmenting the voting strength of a historic Black community carries moral consequences. We should at least have enough honesty to admit what is happening.”

Ducks Unlimited, Financial Federal and Burch, Porter and Johnson make promotions and additions. 

Anthropic, the company behind the widely successful Claude chatbot, would use all of Colossus’ computing capacity. 

Collierville won’t be posting anymore on X, formerly Twitter. The decision was partially due to engagement but also due to explicit content that surfaced when searching the town’s name.

The map would make all nine of Tennessee’s seats Republican-leaning districts.

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Are you a Wordle fan? Try WordRow, a similar game. It’s free to play. 

Today’s puzzle is of strawberries at Jones Orchard and was taken by Patrick Lantrip.

Wanda Halbert, the current county clerk, lost the Democratic nomination for Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk to state Rep. Joe Towns Jr. on Tuesday, May 5, by a 121-vote margin according to unofficial totals.

As a state takeover looms, voters retained two Memphis-Shelby County Schools incumbents seeking re-election, according to unofficial election results from the board’s first-ever partisan primaries held Tuesday, May 5.

“The more they tried to explain it, the worse it got,” said Patrick Lawton, former Germantown city administrator. 

Shante Avant, Karen Streeter and Lashanta Rudd won seats on the County Commission with their win in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries.

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