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  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Christmas time, together at table and memory

    “Four generations of two families over five decades have spent Christmas Eve with us around this table.”

    By Dan Conaway December 23, 2022
  • Opinion

    Opinion: Micah Greenstein’s letter from Israel

    The senior rabbi of the largest synagogue in Tennessee on how “religious and nationalist zealots of all faiths can wreck any country, as we all know – and Israel is on the brink of disenfranchising the majority of the Jewish people in the Diaspora.”

    By Micah Greenstein December 23, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Litterbugs are hurting our legacy as a beautiful city

    For the sake of all of us who believe cleanliness is indeed next to godliness, let’s make a commitment in the new year to support the cleanup efforts in Memphis.

    By Otis Sanford December 21, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: A new approach to combat blighted, vacant lots

    “If we adopted a new approach to vacant land, we could actually reduce the amount of work that is required — and money that is spent — by our city as it intervenes and attempts to maintain health and safety at abandoned land.”

    By Theo Davies December 23, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: BlueCross BlueShield Tennessee strong-arms frontline doctors

    “For more than two years, our heroic clinicians have risked their safety while treating patients on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic in communities large and small.”

    By Marilyn McLeod December 20, 2022
  • Opinion

    Echols: ‘I look to Hollywood to remind me of the power’

    “I believe this old Christmas story is true for lots of reasons. But when I’m in a pinch and can’t think of any of those, I look to Hollywood to remind me of the power in the name that’s behind everything good in my life.”

    By Candace Echols December 18, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Ghost of a river — Part Two

    The island you see across from Greenbelt Park and Harbor Town and Shelby Forest is called the Loosahatchie Bar, and all of it — bigger than all of Mud Island and some of Downtown together — is in Shelby County.

    By Dan Conaway December 16, 2022
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Candace Echols’ columns on faith

    “Ms. Echols’ perspective may be evoking these sorts of questions, causing readers to rethink their assumptions, perhaps rethink the commonly assumed absence of God.”

    By Letters to the Editor December 17, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Legal argument aside, the link between an unsolved rape and Eliza Fletcher’s murder is clear

    Barring some technicality in the law, there is nothing complicated about whether there is a link between Alicia Franklin’s rape and Eliza Fletcher’s murder.

    By Otis Sanford December 15, 2022
  • Memphis Grizzlies

    Grizzlies Mailbag: Jaren Jackson Jr. big dreams and other random nonsense

    This month’s Grizzlies Mailbag includes thoughts on Jaren Jackson Jr.’s chances to be named Defensive Player of the Year and his declining fouls, along with Chris’ favorite Christmas movies.

    By Chris Herrington December 14, 2022
  • Opinion

    Echols: ‘Nothing but a breath between us and the telephone poles’

    “It wasn’t until I reached adulthood that I realized nothing that can be wrapped will fully satisfy. And if the stuff in the boxes — the stuff I flew up and down Poplar looking so frantically for — won’t satisfy, what will?”

    By Candace Echols December 11, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Memories of Stax, the late Jim Stewart and Isaac Hayes’ powder blue Caddy

    “Stax history is about the music but also about the integration and racial healing in Memphis and the nation.”

    By H. Scott Prosterman December 10, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: My journalism class studied the Supreme Court. The findings are not pretty

    “Far too many college students — and older adults, for that matter — know little, if anything, about the Court, its history, its unfettered power, who’s on it and how they got there.”

    By Otis Sanford December 09, 2022
  • 3G reaction Opinion

    Conaway: 3Gs deal isn’t a Christmas gift; it’s a theft

    “I’m a Memphian, and I’m being robbed in Germantown in broad daylight.”

    By Dan Conaway December 13, 2022
  • 3G Reaction Guest Columnists

    Garner: Germantown got an excellent deal on the 3Gs

    “High hopes” that the county commission and the Shelby County Mayor would build trust were hurt by how the deal was announced. “The chasm seems to have widened through actions like these.”

    By Kristina Garner December 08, 2022
  • Music

    Stax founder Jim Stewart dies, an unlikely giant of Southern soul

    Stewart perhaps cut an unlikely figure for the founder of a label that became synonymous with Southern soul music, creating stars such as Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes amid releasing roughly 800 singles and 300 albums in an initial span of fewer than 20 years.

    By Chris Herrington December 08, 2022
  • Opinion

    Morris: ‘Merry Christmas’ should not be political

    “My saying ‘Merry Christmas’ makes some people see me as a conservative, Republican, older, evangelical Southerner. Most of those judgments don’t actually describe who I am.”

    By G. Scott Morris December 04, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: Ja Morant’s game hints at something more. Something sacred.

    “Each of us has a particular history, personality, community, set of strengths and weaknesses – and most importantly – heart full of loves. All of these are useful as we sort out how we might fit into Memphis.”

    By Candace Echols December 10, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Hutchinson: Consider a credit freeze after data breach

    The Identity Theft Resource Center recommends that data breach notices explicitly recommend that victims freeze their credit and that credit reporting agencies create a common system for people to do so.

    By Randy Hutchinson December 03, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: A ‘new and purely authentic’ idea for the Coliseum

    “Support Chris Reyes and his quest for a two-year lease of 15,000 square feet inside the Coliseum so he can expand and build his incredible interactive playground.”

    By Mark Jones December 03, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Ghost of a river — Part One

    “No river in America’s maritime history has seen greater tragedy. And no drama on the Mississippi has been as dramatic, no tragedy as tragic, as what occurred right here.”

    By Dan Conaway December 02, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Some conservative women support abortion rights

    Conservative Kristina Garner writes about her support of limited government, individual freedoms, the right to bear arms, a strong military, and the importance of state and local rights. But on abortion, she writes that decades of discrimination against women lead her and many other conservatives to disagree with the Republican Party’s position.

    By Kristina Garner December 02, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Why recycling could mean a cleaner Tennessee

    The Tennessee CLEAN Act is aimed at bringing together industries, organizations and consumers to put an end to litter in Tennessee by preventing products from becoming litter in the first place.

    By Mike Butler December 01, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: My big brother Louis’ courage, influence and love will never be forgotten

    “Louis had such a dominant influence on my life – perhaps even more than my parents. And I always wanted to be just like him.”

    By Otis Sanford December 01, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: A Christmas column that isn’t tinsel and twinkles

    “Today’s column is about the ways the evil of this world threatens humanity, both through our own choices, and through the spiritual forces in and at work around us. Which is exactly the reason for Christmas.”

    By Candace Echols December 03, 2022

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