About Us | Contact Us | Email Preferences | Help | Donate

Subscribe
  • My Account
  • Help
Log In
Metro Business Op-Ed Sports Arts Food Suburbs Neighborhoods Obits Marketplace Games
  1. Donate
  2. Subscribe
  3. Newsletters
  4. Public Notices
  5. Memphis Events
  6. Podcasts
  7. Gift Subscriptions
  8. Seminars
  9. Job Listings
  10. Advertise With Us
  11. Sponsored Content
Geoff Calkins Otis Sanford Dan Conaway Chris Herrington Guest Columnists Letters to the Editor
Add Daily Memphian to Home Screen

Opinion

  • Geoff Calkins
  • Otis Sanford
  • Dan Conaway
  • Chris Herrington
  • Guest Columnists
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: A year later, Richie Fletcher talks about Liza: ‘She would be the first to forgive.’

    Richie Fletcher on his wife, Liza: “We would have late-night talks about Memphis. We could have been far away, without any worries in the world. I was always like, ‘We need to get out of here.’ But she didn’t want to leave.”

    By Geoff Calkins September 05, 2023
  • Opinion

    Echols: Older people, please come to church

    “Young people need people who have a different perspective not only in race or gender or socioeconomic status, but in age.”

    By Candace Echols August 28, 2023
  • Opinion

    Morris: ‘Missing the embrace of humor’ by candidates for mayor

    “I know that we face serious matters in our city, but that will always be the case. I am looking for a mayor who can lead through serious matters without taking herself or himself too seriously.”

    By G. Scott Morris August 28, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: 20 years in, ‘the benefits of a STEM education are undeniable’

    “However, knowing STEM’s impact is only half the battle. Demographic trends around how specific groups are able to seamlessly integrate into these careers indicate we still have work to do.”

    By Rodrick Gaston August 26, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: The riverfront ‘belongs to all of us’

    “We believe that places for people to connect – safely, healthfully and happily – are more than simple amenities; they’re critical to our community.”

    Related story:

    Riverfront group, including Overton Heirs, sues to stop new Brooks construction

    By Tyree Daniels, Carl Person August 28, 2023
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: You — yes, you — will choose Memphis’ next mayor

    When 12% of the voters can put a candidate in the top four or five, the votes in your Friday night poker game could put somebody over the top.

    By Dan Conaway August 25, 2023
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: As campaign reaches end run, mayoral candidates owe voters answers

    Each of the seven serious contenders for Memphis’ next mayor owe voters answers to important, and different, questions about their pasts. 

    By Otis Sanford August 24, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Keys to reducing crime

    “Failure to address the open carry issues in major metropolitan areas will render all other attempts to reform the entire criminal justice system ineffective.”

    By Ray Schwill August 22, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Hutchinson: Health apps may share sensitive information

    The FTC recommends that users of health apps look for a privacy notice that explains in simple terms what information the app collects, how it’s used, and if it’s shared with third parties and how they use it.

    By Randy Hutchinson August 20, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Developing a coordinated community response to domestic violence

    It can take a victim of domestic violence seven or eight times to even report victimization. Yet law enforcement will see the same suspects or victims multiple times over the span of months or years, either within the same relationship or in new relationships.

    By Amaia Iratzoqui August 20, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: Questions to reframe how we think about Memphis

    “People in our city are considering a lot right now. We are thinking through family histories that are long, friendships that are time-tested, and roots that run deep. “

    By Candace Echols August 20, 2023
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: We can’t dodge this bullet

    There is no better time to tell our own state, and the rest of the country, that we are a city that cannot be bought by the people who make the bullets and the guns that are killing us.

    By Dan Conaway August 18, 2023
  • Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Jennifer Biggs was a friend to all Memphis — whether you had met her or not

    Jennifer Biggs wrote about food and people and angels and whiskey. When she died Wednesday of complications from cancer, Memphis lost one of its best friends.

    By Geoff Calkins August 17, 2023
  • Opinion

    Maxey: My light shines a little brighter because of Jennifer’s friendship

    “Jennifer Biggs always managed to be in the vicinity during some of the brightest moments of my life and during some of the darkest.”

    By Ron Maxey August 17, 2023
  • Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: It’s the most important election in years, Memphis. Time to study up!

    Here’s what we learned about those who showed up Tuesday for the Memphis mayoral debate. 

    By Geoff Calkins August 16, 2023
  • Golf

    Guest Column: Memphis, FedEx and St. Jude form ‘partnerships of place and purpose’

    “On behalf of everyone at ALSAC and St. Jude, I’m grateful to Memphis for once again sharing its soul with the world during the FedEx St. Jude Championship.”

    By Richard C. Shadyac Jr. August 14, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: ‘Memphis, we must not overlook each other’

    “Our people are gold. They’re not the type you just walk out on. ... The everyday folks that make up Memphis are awesome.”

    By Candace Echols August 13, 2023
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Swimming in memory with Ann Wiggs and Eudora Welty

    “We met a month before at the spring-fed pool at Allison’s Wells, a fading Southern Belle of a place — sort of resort, part art colony, part retreat from change deep in the Mississippi woods outside of Canton.”

    By Dan Conaway August 11, 2023
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: With Herenton on the mayoral ballot, voters must ask, ‘Would we? Should we?’

    “I consider the former mayor, who was elected five times, the most pivotal player in this year’s election for a couple of reasons.”

    By Otis Sanford August 10, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Time for Beale Street Music Festival to evolve

    “The leadership of Memphis in May has not changed since 1998. We should be grateful for their work over the years, keeping the festival going through all of the rain and mud and years. But it’s time for a change.”

    By Taylor Berger August 09, 2023
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    Grizzlies Mailbag: Jaren Jackson Jr. at center, fifth starter contenders, more

    This week, it’s the Grizzlies’ contender status, Jaren Jackson Jr. at center, last season’s road woes and lots more hoops stuff. 

    By Chris Herrington August 08, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: A column for those who’ve had a brush with Christianity

    “Perhaps they grew up going to church, but it felt dull. Perhaps they went to Christian school, but didn’t click with their classmates. Perhaps they had a sibling or a friend or a mother who prayed for them, but it never really took.”

    By Candace Echols August 06, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: ‘When the citizens of a place no longer feel safe’

    “There doesn’t seem to be a cohesive plan to address early childhood development, education, income, outcomes and policing across our agencies and non-profits. An all hands-on-deck summit might be a good place to start.”

    By Beau Peyton August 06, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Morris: Tom Lee Park reflects the glory of Memphis

    “I hope we will all treat it with honor and respect because Tom Lee Park will change the way outsiders view our city and how we see ourselves.”

    By G. Scott Morris August 11, 2023
  • Premium Germantown

    Bailey: Germantown residents aren’t swallowing excuses about water

    One thing was clear from those attending the Thursday night Town Hall session — the citizens don’t trust the city’s answers or addressing such a crisis in the future.

    By Clay Bailey August 04, 2023

  • About 3340 results

    1 … 31 32 33 … 134
    RSS
Local news in your inbox every week.

Sign up for our coverage of the key happenings in our city including city hall, elections, and more.

Enter your e-mail address

Please check your inbox to finish the signup process. If you haven't received an email within 10 minutes, check your spam/junk folder or contact us at support@dailymemphian.com for assistance.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

You are already signed up

Opt out

Manage Your Email Subscriptions

Trending Now

  1. Premium
    Federal judge recuses self from two more cases
  2. Premium
    It’s not Pancho’s Green Dressing but it is local
  3. Premium
    Data dive: Numbers behind the story of Memphis’ crime decline
  4. Premium
    Redbirds stir up controversy with ‘Big Beautiful Buffet’ post
  5. Premium
    How the fight over Elon Musk’s air permit could change Memphis
Get The Daily Memphian Email Edition

Email Editions

Sign up for our morning and evening editions, plus breaking news.

Enter your e-mail address

Please check your inbox to finish the signup process. If you haven't received an email within 10 minutes, check your spam/junk folder or contact us at support@dailymemphian.com for assistance.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

You are already signed up

Opt out

Manage Your Email Subscriptions

Metro

  • City of Memphis
  • Shelby County
  • State Government
  • Education
  • Public Safety
  • Elections
  • Spirit of Memphis
  • The Early Word
  • On the Record
  • Behind The Headlines

Business

  • Real Estate
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • Transportation/Logistics
  • Movers and Shakers
  • Ford Megasite

Opinion

  • Geoff Calkins
  • Otis Sanford
  • Dan Conaway
  • Chris Herrington
  • Guest Columnists

Sports

  • Memphis Grizzlies
  • High School Sports
  • Golf
  • Grizzlies Podcast
  • Tigers Basketball
  • Tigers Football
  • Tigers Podcast

Arts & Culture

  • Visual Arts
  • Performing Arts
  • Music
  • The To-Do List
  • The Sidebar
  • Memphis Events
  • The Arts Beat

Food

  • Food News
  • Reviews
  • Recipes
  • $15 Deals
  • Table Talk
  • Sound Bites
  • Dining Guides

Suburbs

  • Arlington
  • Bartlett
  • Collierville
  • Germantown
  • Millington
  • Lakeland
  • North Mississippi

Neighborhoods

  • Downtown
  • Midtown
  • North Memphis
  • East Memphis
  • South Memphis
  • About Town

Obituaries

Marketplace

Games

Donate

Subscribe

Newsletters

Memphis Events

More

  • Podcasts
  • Gift Subscriptions
  • Seminars
  • Job Listings
  • Advertise With Us
  • Sponsored Content

Public Notices

  • Court Notices
  • Bid Notices
  • Miscellaneous Notices
  • Log In
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • FAQ
  • Work With Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Email Preferences
  • Subscribe
Become a subscriber to keep reading.
Help Log In
© 2025 The Daily Memphian | Contact Us | FAQ | Additional Subscription Options | Work With Us | About Us | Privacy Policy | Donate