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    Echols: Memories of Marc Gasol and the Core Four bring tears, grief and joy

    “We were proud to be Memphians for a great many reasons, but underneath them all was a sense of citywide unity. For once, we were all on the same team.”

    By Candace Echols April 14, 2024
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    Bailey: Colorful crosswalks could make Wolf River Boulevard safer to traverse

    Germantown plans to make some of its crosswalks stand out more as part of the public-art effort in the suburb.

    By Clay Bailey April 12, 2024
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: We have COVID. Get over it.

    We’ve become physically and intellectually lazy. We’ve made our goals easy, and we’ve made the first answer we like good enough, true or not.

    By Dan Conaway April 12, 2024
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Let’s give voters a break and stagger local judicial races

    I’m no fan of our legislature. But in the case of former Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Melissa Boyd, lawmakers acted with prudence and in the best interest of all Memphis and Shelby County voters.

    By Otis Sanford April 11, 2024
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    Herrington: Jaren Jackson Jr.'s production soared this season, but the perfect balance still awaits

    Herrington breaks down Jaren Jackson’s usage and availability, scoring and shooting, passing, rebounding and defense and looks ahead to next season.

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    Grizzlies Insider: Taylor Jenkins impressed by Scotty Pippen Jr. in two-way stint

    By Chris Herrington April 09, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Protect our community by opposing the biomass campus and sawmill in North Memphis

    The potential negative health consequences and disregard for community voices associated with this project demand national attention, as these unfounded “carbon management” projects are targeting Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities across the country.

    By Lauren Williams Batiste April 09, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Regional One and UT embark on ‘transformational journey’

    “We are focused on making our vision of bringing an academic medical center to Memphis a reality and transforming Memphis and the Mid-South into a healthier, more vibrant place to live and work.”

    By Reginald Coopwood April 07, 2024
  • Opinion

    Morris: Hospitals are struggling, which is bad for all of us

    “In this Easter season, what could be more biblical than helping the poor who are almost blind to get their vision back? For Memphis to thrive as a community, we need to be healthy in body and spirit.”

    By G. Scott Morris April 07, 2024
  • Opinion

    Echols: ‘the secret of the creatives’

    “What started with truth, goodness and beauty has fallen into dissonance. That’s what I hear in the news, gunfire, sirens and gossip. ... I’ve heard the dissonance in the sound of my own complaining voice.”

    By Candace Echols April 07, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: MATA interim CEO on ‘transforming transit in the Mid-South’

    “Transit is not the ‘poor folks people mover’ – it’s an economic engine that will help power the reemergence of our city and ultimately this region.”

    By Bacarra Mauldin April 06, 2024
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Marc Gasol was made by Memphis — and then he made the city a better place

    The Core Four will be back together to celebrate Marc Gasol at FedExForum Saturday night. But this celebration will be different than all the others. Because Gasol’s story is the story of a franchise, a city and a family, all wrapped up in one.

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    Marc Gasol hints at potential ‘Core Four’ reunion, muses on Memphis in return

    By Geoff Calkins April 05, 2024
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    Buckley: Showboats are working to earn Memphis’ trust. It’s a tough job

    “We understand the hesitancy to buy in,” Daryl Johnston said as the new UFL’s Showboats, who play in Memphis but practice in Texas, prepare for their home opener.

    By Tim Buckley April 06, 2024
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: He had his 80th birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. It made all the sense in the world.

    Harold Goldbrandsen celebrated his 80th birthday at the Chuck E. Cheese in Cordova. Why? Because he created Chuck E. Cheese. And his daughter thought it was about time he had a birthday extravaganza at the place. 

     

    By Geoff Calkins April 05, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Arts are a tool for a healthier, more vibrant Memphis

    “An intentional focus on our cultural economy from the top can be a gamechanger for our city. Let us finally embrace and profit from this rich natural resource the way other cities have – off of our artists, our creators, our backs – for years.”

    By Elizabeth Cawein April 05, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Economic opportunity for Memphis women is a ‘top priority’

    “Memphis women earned 82% of what their male counterparts earned. ... But by working together, we can make an impact.”

    By Rhonda Treadwell, Trevia Chatman April 05, 2024
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: The state doesn’t save, the state steals

    “The state has not merely encouraged white flight, the state has enabled it. The state has not merely supported white flight, the state built the airport, and the runway surrounds the city.”

    By Dan Conaway April 05, 2024
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Helping local arts groups collaborate to reach more people

    Nykesha Cole joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar” to talk about her work as the arts-and-culture liaison for Shelby County Government.

    By Eric Barnes April 03, 2024
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    Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: ‘Curiosity does the heavy lifting’

    “Macsovits has taken what she’s been taught in the course of a lifetime, married it with the deeper and broader perspective she has earned in motherhood, and is now passing it on to others.”

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    Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: It’s always a party at one special Memphis school

    Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: Everett beats the odds

    By Candace Echols April 03, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: It’s always a party at one special Memphis school

    “We all know anytime there are gifts being opened, anytime there’s ice cream and field trips and dress up and games, anytime someone is empowered to do something they could not do before, there’s a party going on.”

    By Candace Echols April 03, 2024
  • Opinion

    Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: Everett beats the odds

    “Every year on June 21, my brother Landon Williams sends me some version of the same text message ... ‘Hey Sister! Today is the 6-year anniversary of the day when Everett was supposed to die.’”

    By Candace Echols April 03, 2024
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: ‘Hope, love and opportunity’ at University Schools should be for all

    “Frankly, I don’t worry about the kids we serve within our schools. I worry about the kids we don’t. What happens to them? Where do they go? And most importantly, how can I help them?”

    By Sally Gates Parish March 29, 2024
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Ghosts rising within

    Research has revealed that Nathan Bedford Forrest’s slave pens were originally behind Calvary Episcopal Church, but in the 1880s, the church expanded to the east over the site of the pens.

    By Dan Conaway March 29, 2024
  • Memphis Tigers Basketball

    Calkins: Stage four lung cancer can’t keep Joye Lee-McNelis from coaching (and winning!) 1,000th game

    It may be the best story of this basketball postseason. And one of the hardest stories, too. The former Memphis women’s basketball coach went to astonishing lengths to be with her Southern Miss team through it all.

    By Geoff Calkins June 24, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Rental owners can help reduce crime

    “Rental property owners can reduce crime by utilizing police calls for service information at their properties. This is no untested theory. It is a proven method that has been put into practice in other crime-ridden neighborhoods in Memphis. And it works.”

    By Daniel Quinn March 26, 2024
  • Opinion

    Greenstein: ‘Religion without humor isn’t healthy’

    “The observance of today’s Jewish holiday lends tremendous insight into the Jewish mind, namely the ability to accept life with a sense of humor is a key ingredient to healthy living.”

    By Micah Greenstein March 24, 2024

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