The Tennessee Supreme Court recently approved the Education Savings Account Act. You say education savings accounts, I say vouchers. You say tomato, I say tomato. Rotten tomato.

The battles for district attorney and county mayor will get most of the headlines, but the race to determine who oversees judicial proceedings at Juvenile Court is the most important overall to the community.

“... women of color on average possess significantly less wealth than white men and women alike, the St. Louis Fed analysis finds.”

“What happens when there is a shortage of truly pet-inclusive housing in a community? Animals get surrendered to the shelter in great numbers, increasing the burden on the taxpayers and potentially increasing shelter euthanasia.”

Tracy City is representative of the majority of people in the Tennessee General Assembly. Repressing progress, fighting change.

If Peggy was on your team, you could count on her to put her heart and soul into everything she did on your behalf. 

“The internet is full of screeds and bellowing referencing the fringe theory that white Americans are slowly but surely becoming extinct.”

“This new law is not about ‘truth;’ it is about severity,” writes Just City’s executive director. 

“Voters on both sides of this issue believe that lives are at stake, so it is the voters who should ultimately control the outcome of the debate.”

“Until our society can see the truth about abortion, we will continue failing the women who need us the most. People like my grandmother.”

They are banning books. Again. But more of them this time around, and with even less reason. There is nothing is more intrinsically un-American than controlling what we can see, what we can learn.

Make no mistake, Memphis is partnering with the city in a “transformational renovation” of Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in order to get to a better conference. Will it work? 

How did this group of Republicans, all of whom profess to being true conservatives, particularly on fiscal issues, get so out of step with one another?

A recent survey found that 77% of consumers “always” or “regularly” read reviews from other consumers. That was up from 60% in the prior survey.

Crosstown High School ninth grades wrote this column addressing the noise and air pollution in Memphis for their capstone class.

On Tom Lee Day, the Tom Lee Poetry and Spoken Word Contest encourages young people to engage in the success of our city.

“I had some takeout at the Half Shell on Mendenhall. I took out the corner of the restaurant with a Subaru. Completely. Spectacularly.”

We must strip hateful politics from the rhetoric we use every day and advocate for all of us to be able to live with enough food on the table and to have a meaningful job that will pay our basic bills.

Carpenter reflects the hard-working constituents of Germantown and East Memphis, and he understands the needs of middle-class families.

A recent study by GoBankingRates found how many years $1 million would last during retirement in 50 of the most populated U.S. cities and, yep, we won this one.

“Welcome to the world of Tennessee Republican politics in 2022, where the long-held belief of party unity is just an illusion.”

Morrison is what we are all looking for in a local elected official, says Jack Sammons.

“It’s critical that we head to the polls to determine who will lead as we seek to redefine Shelby County’s position regionally, statewide and nationally.”

“We were living proof that there is a middle, and real, day-to-day life is lived there more than anywhere else. Then and now.”