“Can a city stand against laws that disproportionately and negatively affect their entire population, daily threatening their safety, their livelihoods and their very lives?”
“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.”
“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.”
Let us count the reasons. The list is longer than the current number of Pac-12 members.
If given the chance, Memphis should jump to the Pac-12. It isn’t even a close call.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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. Tigers basketball to host North Carolina, South Carolina in games benefiting St. JudeRelated content:
“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.”
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.
“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.”
“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.”
Opinion: If this year’s budget season taught us anything, it’s that we have to work better together for kids, schools and families.
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. Memphis AD: Hardaway will ‘absolutely, unequivocally' stay Tigers' coachRelated content:
After my oldest brother died, my other brother and I began really talking and laughing.
“Penny Hardaway has fired Rick Stansbury and three other staffers just weeks before a new season begins. The continuing chaos is not ideal.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
“A clear majority of Republicans, Democrats, independents and gun owners say they want ... common-sense gun laws.”
“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.”
“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.”