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    Education savings accounts would let Tennessee parents customize a child’s academic life

    Tennessee spends nearly $11,000 on each student’s education annually. With ESAs, parents could direct a portion of their child’s funding to the schools and programs they choose, including homeschooling, private and online schools, as well as traditional public schools.

    By Dolores Gresham, Justin Owen February 26, 2019
  • Guest Columnists

    Memphis music for February: Let’s lean in to the misery

    Memphis has provided the world with some of the great love songs, but love is not always easy. Here's a playlist that takes heartbreaks, loneliness and love gone wrong into account.

    By Elizabeth Cawein February 25, 2019
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Russell Sugarmon blazed a trail for racial change in Memphis

    In his early career, Russell Sugarmon played a key role in Memphis' political evolution, both as a candidate for city office in 1959 and as a lawyer for college students who staged sit-ins at lunch counters and public libraries.

    By Otis Sanford February 21, 2019
  • Opinion

    Nelson: Ernest Withers – flawed but no less a hero

    Ernest Withers, the famous Memphis photographer, was also Ernest Withers the informant, a man whose life illustrates Martin Luther King's description of man's dual nature.

    By Michael Nelson February 21, 2019
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Ode to the olive boat captain

    John Simmons gets a tribute that recognizes that he, not his imaginative inventory, was the treasure in his Memphis shops. 

    By Dan Conaway February 21, 2019
  • Guest Columnists

    Daniels: New spirit shines through Tom Lee Park design

    The bold new design for Tom Lee Park aspires to create one of the country's great waterfronts while sending a message that Memphis is a place that embraces its past but isn't defined by it. 

    By Tyree Daniels February 19, 2019
  • Opinion

    Robertson: Workforce development and economic development go hand in hand

    When reporting on economic development, the media often emphasizes tax breaks while downplaying the net new taxes generated. This leads many people to simply misunderstand how incentives work and can have serious repercussions for a community, as can be seen in New York with Amazon.

    By Beverly C. Robertson February 19, 2019
  • Opinion

    Growth is important to Memphis, but it is important to remember past failures

    From the St. Jude expansion to the reinvigorated Edge District, Memphis has much to celebrate. But some people have questions and concerns about the Memphis River Parks Partnership's proposal for Tom Lee Park. The concerns and questions should be addressed.

    By Kathy Edmundson-Ferguson February 15, 2019
  • Opinion

    Nelson: Why Mississippi needs a new state flag

    E Pluribus unum is our nation’s traditional motto. Conservatives are drawn to the unum – the unity – in that motto. Liberals often prefer the pluribus – the diversity. Wouldn’t it be great if all our flags allowed us to put aside the pluribus among us and experience the unum?

    By Michael Nelson February 14, 2019
  • Opinion

    Sanford: Miss. Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves must clarify stance on race relations

    Mississippi’s Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves is running to be the chief executive of a state where nearly 40 percent of its citizens are African-Americans. They and everyone else in Mississippi deserve to hear directly from him a definitive statement on race relations in 2019.

    By Otis Sanford February 14, 2019
  • Opinion

    Conaway: A New Orleans story

    Some cities just naturally make stories. Others just make noise. Orderly and predictable are safe, but funky and unique are a lot more fun. New Orleans and Memphis are what they are because of those latter traits.

    By Dan Conaway February 14, 2019
  • Opinion

    Successful cities are defined by imaginative leadership, not stasis driven by hordes of naysayers

    Cities evolve or die. Look at places like Nashville, New Orleans, Atlanta and even Louisville and Austin. Compare those to Little Rock and Jackson, Mississippi. Which do we want to be more like?

    By Taylor Berger February 13, 2019
  • Opinion

    Now more than ever, Americans need to respect and support law enforcement

    Too many people are engaging in dangerous rhetoric that encourages people to “resist” all forms of authority, including law enforcement. This slander must stop – and it must stop right now.

    By D. Michael Dunavant February 08, 2019
  • Opinion

    Infrastructure is key to continued growth in Tennessee’s economy

    Infrastructure is key to continued growth in Tennessee’s economy. In Memphis, we must continue to invest in world-class transportation systems and we must look to new solutions to fund these investments.

    By Jim Strickland February 08, 2019
  • Opinion

    A variety of quality choices strengthens all

    We have an obligation to the next generation to provide them with every opportunity to be successful. That success begins with an educational system that is nimble and inclusive of a variety of options from which parents can choose.

    By Trent Williamson February 08, 2019
  • Opinion

    America has a hate problem

    As our country continues to debate over how we secure our borders, whether or not to build a wall to keep people out of our country, we might consider taking a closer look at those who are born within it. Hate is killing our country.

    By Terri Lee Freeman February 08, 2019
  • Opinion

    Sanford: Gov. Lee should change position on removing Forrest’s bust from Capitol

    The Tennessee Republican Party must find the political courage to move the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust – a blatant symbol of Tennessee’s shameful history – out of the Capitol rotunda and into the museum, and replace it with a hero that is more representative of all Tennesseans. 

    By Otis Sanford February 07, 2019
  • Opinion

    Nelson: Here’s hoping the Memphis Express make it

    If history is any guide, the new Memphis Express professional football franchise will do fine. The big question concerns the league, the new eight-team Alliance of American Football.

    By Michael Nelson February 07, 2019
  • Opinion

    Conaway: Right there in the parking lot

    Despicable behavior isn’t new, people at their worst doing what they do because they can. What’s new is the lack of national outrage, the shrugging of our national shoulders, a coast-to-coast “so what.”

    By Dan Conaway February 07, 2019
  • Opinion

    Let’s help a whole city of kids

    People talk about school choice. But school choice doesn’t truly exist if parents don’t have access to good schools. There is a solution that can help: unified enrollment.

    By Sarah Carpenter February 06, 2019
  • Opinion

    Nelson: 1978 Democratic midterm convention could tell us something about 2020

    What effect would a serious intraparty challenge to President Donald Trump’s re-nomination have on his chances of being elected for a second term?

    By Michael Nelson January 31, 2019
  • Opinion

    Across Tennessee, more stories of success for students

    Jamie Woodson is stepping down as CEO of the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) after eight years. Woodson says there’s still much more to do for students in Tennessee.

    By Jamie Woodson January 31, 2019
  • Opinion

    Conaway: Life is a song

    On the 50-mile drive over to Brownsville, Marsha Thompson told us a story.

    By Dan Conaway January 31, 2019
  • Opinion

    Sanford: A serious look at Memphis poverty requires more than a math equation

    In an otherwise carefully crafted State of the City address that was full of symbolism and substance, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland included one line that may have caused more confusion than clarity.

    By Otis Sanford January 31, 2019
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Luminary Awards shine well-deserved light on 10 women change-makers

    The 10 women honored with Luminary Award medals this year represent the diversity, racially and otherwise, that makes Memphis a cool place in which to live.

    By Otis Sanford January 24, 2019

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