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    Echols: Who are we without wonder?

    “We don’t ask to be born and are given absolutely no say in the matter. We don’t get to choose our era, our families, our location of birth. One day, we’re just aware that we are and it takes effort to believe that all of human life and existence didn’t start the very same moment I did.”

    By Candace Echols September 22, 2024
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    Conaway: We haven’t done anything about guns, and the Legislature is scared we might

    “Can a city stand against laws that disproportionately and negatively affect their entire population, daily threatening their safety, their livelihoods and their very lives?”

    By Dan Conaway September 20, 2024
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    Opinion: ‘MATA overextended itself,’ board chair says

    “Great cities are intentional and not accidental. Currently, the Memphis Area Transit Authority does not have adequate funding to deliver the service our riders need and deserve.”

    By Michael Fulton September 19, 2024
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    Opinion: Sewers are a ‘new opportunity for growth’

    “Economic growth will be driven to Fayette, Haywood, Tipton, Lauderdale and Madison counties. Why? Because as it stands growth cannot occur in Shelby County without sewer.”

    By Brent Taylor September 19, 2024
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    Buckley: Memphis should NOT jump to the Pac-12

    Let us count the reasons. The list is longer than the current number of Pac-12 members. 

    By Tim Buckley September 17, 2024
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    Calkins: Memphis should jump to the Pac-12

    If given the chance, Memphis should jump to the Pac-12. It isn’t even a close call. 

    By Geoff Calkins September 17, 2024
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    Calkins: Biggest Memphis win ever? It might just be.

    “Ryan Silverfield called the win over Florida State ‘monumental.’ It was certainly that. Indeed, there is an argument that it was the most important win in program history.”

    By Geoff Calkins September 16, 2024
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    Echols: Memphis ‘has the capacity to be marked by peace’

    “We have the capacity to be good neighbors to one another again, even as we continue to work through our collective crime-related trauma and the unpredictable triggers it ushers it to the surface.”

    By Candace Echols September 15, 2024
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    Narcisse: ‘Let’s grab a cup of coffee’

    “Let’s bring the conflict of the comments section into a community that learns how to wrestle together, not to be right but to be helped.”

    By Joshua Henry Narcisse September 15, 2024
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    Conaway: In Tennessee, Trump couldn’t vote

    “In one of the reddest states in the nation, where Trump will likely win by more votes than Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel has biscuits, Trump couldn’t vote.”

    By Dan Conaway September 13, 2024
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    Calkins: Tar Heels, Gamecocks coming to Memphis. That’s the power of St. Jude.

    The North Carolina men’s basketball team and the South Carolina women’s basketball team are coming to Memphis. for a nationally televised doubleheader to benefit St. Jude. And just wait until you hear what St. Jude is hoping to do next.

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    Tigers basketball to host North Carolina, South Carolina in games benefiting St. Jude

    By Geoff Calkins September 12, 2024
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    Sanford: Liberated state rep. exits politics with harsh words for GOP

    “Dwayne Thompson’s caucus has repeatedly tried to steer the Legislature, particularly the House, toward more compromise, less rancor and far less dictatorship. It hasn’t worked. And Thompson has had enough.”

    By Otis Sanford September 12, 2024
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    Pass Go: Previous Monopoly-like games reveal Memphis history

    A new version of a localized Monopoly game brings back memories not only a similar boards but places no longer a part of the Mid-South.

    By Clay Bailey September 10, 2024
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    Guest Column: People need to turn down the temperature in tense times

    “Few of us probably think of ourselves as contributors to conflict. ... As Amanda Ripley points out in her book ‘High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out,’ we think of ourselves as right.”

    By Stephen Cook September 10, 2024
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    Echols: ‘Motherhood, it seems, is falling out of fashion’

    “Women of childbearing age are becoming more and more likely to kick parenthood to the curb. And who can blame them? There’s a government-issued health warning about it.”

    By Candace Echols December 09, 2024
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    Guest column: ‘More for Memphis’ plan brings city, county, MSCS board together on education

    Opinion: If this year’s budget season taught us anything, it’s that we have to work better together for kids, schools and families.

    By Michelle McKissack, Jerri Green, Charlie Caswell September 07, 2024
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    Calkins: Ed Scott is the man for the moment. But can he save Penny Hardaway?

    Scott said Hardaway would absolutely, unequivocally be back “based on every piece of information I have right now, today.” Tomorrow, the information could be different.

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    Memphis AD: Hardaway will ‘absolutely, unequivocally' stay Tigers' coach

    By Geoff Calkins September 11, 2024
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    Conaway: Finally agreed — the boys can write

    After my oldest brother died, my other brother and I began really talking and laughing. 

    By Dan Conaway September 06, 2024
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    Calkins: Rick Stansbury is the latest to go — and the chaos is not ideal.

    “Penny Hardaway has fired Rick Stansbury and three other staffers just weeks before a new season begins. The continuing chaos is not ideal.”

     

    By Geoff Calkins September 05, 2024
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    Morris: 15 things that still make Church Health special

    Scott Morris listed 15 points that his younger self believed were important in how he went about doing my work and matters he believed were important in life.

    By G. Scott Morris September 01, 2024
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    Calkins: For Memphis football, it’s a hole new ballgame!

    Memphis crushed North Alabama in their first game at the Liberty Hole, also known as Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. The place looked really strange. But in a good way.

    By Geoff Calkins September 01, 2024
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    Conaway: This time, The Citadel saluted

    This is about effort against odds, the measure being the effort itself, never accepting that there’s no sense in trying, never giving anything less than your best, knowing the measure of you is you.

    By Dan Conaway September 10, 2024
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    Calkins: Jermaine ‘FunnyMaine’ Johnson is a Memphian to take seriously

    The comedian, DJ, video producer and ‘poet laureate of Alabama football' is new to Memphis-Shelby County Schools. But he’s not as new to Memphis as you might think.

    By Geoff Calkins August 29, 2024
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    Opinion: Why is it so difficult to change our gun culture?

    “A clear majority of Republicans, Democrats, independents and gun owners say they want ... common-sense gun laws.”

    By Bethel “Bo” Thomas September 01, 2024
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    Greenstein: Xenophobic slander has become normalized

    “There is not enough room in one country to house (all) the ... human beings living on this planet. However, there are humane and inhumane ways to find solutions and address the most vulnerable members of society.”

    By Micah Greenstein August 25, 2024

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