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    Sanford: Will Strickland’s popularity outweigh voter preference in term limit referendum?

    Memphis voters have tended to favor incumbents. Since the mid-1960s, only three sitting mayors have been denied reelection.

    By Otis Sanford July 16, 2022
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: We need local leaders who are tough on crime

    Missy Rainer says as Election Day approaches, there are “many thoughts swirling around in my head with regard to the candidates and their positions on crime in our community.”

    By Letters to the Editor July 13, 2022
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: An old white man responds to Dan Conaway

    A 65-year-old white man responds to Dan Conaway’s recent column, “Welcome to the world of old white men.”

    By Letters to the Editor July 12, 2022
  • Opinion

    Opinion: Jones Act reform need not be all-or-nothing

    “The Jones Act was not intended to protect jobs. It was to ensure a fleet of reliable, commercial oceangoing ships that could serve in times of war or emergency,” says guest columnist Jonathan Helton.

    By Jonathan Helton July 10, 2022
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    Conaway: We’re a mess, and no one is responsible

    “Our county is a mess. I’m taking it personally and so should you.”

    By Dan Conaway July 08, 2022
  • Opinion

    Conaway: Welcome to the world of old white men

    “While white men over 65 represent something in the neighborhood of 5% of our population, they’re engaged in a battle to hold their fierce grip on power and opinion. Sadly, tragically, they’re winning.”

    By Dan Conaway July 11, 2022
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    Sanford: Gov. Lee was wrong in failing to defend teachers against unwarranted attacks

    “Why would he just sit idly by and allow an outsider to trash Tennessee teachers and Tennessee colleges?”

    By Otis Sanford July 07, 2022
  • Opinion

    Guest column: Consider serving as an election poll worker in Shelby County

    Opinion: The Election Commission is seeking poll workers for the upcoming elections, city a “significant civic need.”

    By Mark Luttrell July 07, 2022
  • Subscribers only Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: The secret of Ernest Withers (now in an important podcast)

    Ernest Withers was an iconic civil rights photographer — and an FBI informant. A new podcast revisits the complicated, painful tale.

    By Geoff Calkins July 06, 2022
  • Opinion

    Opinion: MLGW consultant massively underestimated benefits of leaving TVA

    Former MLGW president and CEO: “The consultant’s presentation seemed designed to frighten and make people afraid to take the risk of leaving TVA, rather than make us aware of its benefits and rewards.”

    By Herman Morris Jr. July 06, 2022
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    Opinion: Dobbs decision not only about abortion but about women’s rights more broadly

    “I find it easy to understand why women see the overturning of Roe v. Wade as rolling back a broad range of rights for women that goes well beyond the matter of abortion.”

    By G. Scott Morris July 02, 2022
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    Guest column: Scams on the rise, with social media a heavy contributor

    More than one in four people who reported to the Federal Trade Commission that they lost money in a scam in 2021 say it originated on social media, an 18-fold increase over 2017.

    By Randy Hutchinson July 02, 2022
  • Subscribers only Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Discovering true joy in a game. Again.

    Golf began for everyone in Memphis in Overton Park in 1906 with the opening of the Overton Park 9, the city’s first public course.

    By Dan Conaway July 01, 2022
  • Subscribers only Elections

    Sanford: Party loyalty, prosecutorial philosophy will dictate outcome of DA’s race

    Republican incumbent Amy Weirich is in a fierce battle with Democratic challenger Steve Mulroy as she seeks to hang on to the job of Shelby County’s top prosecutor for another eight years.

    By Otis Sanford July 05, 2022
  • Opinion

    Opinion: Access to birth control is more important than ever

    Executive director of A Step Ahead Foundation: Because an unplanned pregnancy creates challenges to personal stability and growth, free access “to birth control is now more important than ever.”

    By Nikki Gibbs June 29, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest column: General Assembly’s Jones Act resolution supports maritime industry

    The Jones Act — the bedrock law of American maritime — supports more than 20,000 jobs and $4.5 billion in economic output in Tennessee.

    By George Leavell June 29, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest column: Lessons from Memphis can help with a crisis in democracy

    “What can save our nation are movements which mobilize political action over the long haul — like the movements that have happened in Memphis.”

    By Fred Morton June 26, 2022
  • Opinion

    Guest column: The danger of learning to live with danger

    To become desensitized to the dangers around us would be to lose sight of hope for healing.

    By Bobby Baker June 26, 2022
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    New Overton Park 9 golf course is designed for all ages

    Drew Hill says that the redesigned course also will challenge the better players if they go for the greens. 

    By Drew Hill June 27, 2022
  • Opinion

    Opinion: A local law professor on why she supports the overturning of Roe v Wade

    Guest column: “For anyone seeking the truth about the abortion decision, I encourage you to push through the noise and ignore the political rhetoric.”

    By Lynda Wray Black June 29, 2022
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    Conaway: School lessons in heroism

    “We lead the world in gun violence and mass shootings, rampages with numerous people shot and killed. Our governor is a coward. All who take gun money in the face of this reality are cowards.”

    By Dan Conaway June 24, 2022
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    Sanford: Don’t change state standards for teaching social studies

    “I’ve always been told that if something isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Tennessee’s standards for teaching social studies are not broken. Far from it. They offer students a comprehensive and accurate view of our world, past and present, warts and all.”

    By Otis Sanford June 23, 2022
  • Subscribers only Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Partisan city primaries would further divide us

    Partisan primaries would make Memphis city government more like the divisive dumpster fire that is today’s Washington, D.C.

    By Kemp Conrad June 21, 2022
  • Opinion

    On Father’s Day, remembering what it means to have a stepdad

    Eric Barnes: “Thoughts on my stepfather on the first Father’s Day since his passing — and more than 43 years since he entered my and my late mother’s life.”

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    Calkins: He came to Memphis for Mike Tyson. He wound up as a dad of five.

    By Eric Barnes June 20, 2022
  • Subscribers only Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: He came to Memphis for Mike Tyson. He wound up as a dad of five.

    Brian Young moved to Memphis to stage the Tyson-Lewis fight. It was a huge success. But what happened next might be the best part of the story. Without ever expecting it, Young became a dad of five.

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    On Father’s Day, remembering what it means to have a stepdad by Eric Barnes

    By Geoff Calkins July 11, 2022

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