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  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    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
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    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
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    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
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    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
  • Guest Columnists

    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
  • Guest Columnists

    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
  • Guest Columnists

    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
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    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
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    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
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    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
  • Guest Columnists

    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
  • Premium Memphis Tigers Football

    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
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    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
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    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
  • Guest Columnists

    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
  • Guest Columnists

    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
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: Candace asks readers to share their stories

    “Paying attention to the world around you and then flapping your lips about it ... starts to feel decidedly one-sided after a while, a bit like talking to yourself out loud for the whole city to hear.”

    By Candace Echols August 25, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Hutchinson: Privacy policies are important to understand

    A recent study found 81% of the public say the potential risks they face because of data collection by companies outweigh the benefits.

    By Randy Hutchinson August 24, 2024
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Let’s give all these crazy ideas a name — Lauren Crews

    Let’s rename Crump Park, a lovely little spot, Crews Park. Crump already has plenty of things named after him. 

    By Dan Conaway August 23, 2024
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Linda Sklar ran the MSCS optional programs for 13 superintendents. Yes, 13! That’s lucky for us.

    Linda Sklar was hired to bring middle-class families back to Memphis schools. For roughly 50 years, she did that and more. She built optional programs that inspired hundreds of people to stand in lines. 

    By Geoff Calkins August 23, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Lieutenant governor says DA Mulroy ‘needs to go’

    “Steve Mulroy is neither a dictator, nor is he a free agent. He is subject to the same Constitution and laws we all are. And the Constitution says he has a job to do.”

    By Randy McNally August 22, 2024

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