“There is no one easy, quick answer to the challenge of gun violence, but there are some common sense steps that could make a significant dent.”

“Where is my right to safety and personal choice?”

While the apps are a legitimate payment method, using them involves some risks that are greater than paying with a credit card.

“On the rare occasion it has two working elevators, I feel so thankful.”

Why is it so hard to say goodbye to our dogs? I asked Scott Morris, who is still saddened by the recent loss of Sidney, the best dog ever. He says the secret is love.

We won’t get anywhere if we respond to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting by only, once again, calling for legal changes that will have little chance of being enacted. We need to sit down in our houses of worship and come up with concrete ways to draw close to the children Jesus loves.

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.