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    Guest Column: Ignoring party labels is exactly what Memphians elected Strickland to do

    There’s nothing wrong with a non-partisan mayor trying to curry favor with a member of either political party, particularly when his constituents elected him to do just that.

    By Susan Adler Thorp March 30, 2022
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    Letter to the Editor: Please add more arts & culture coverage

    A subscriber says, “There are those of us who love our (Memphis Symphony Orchestra) musicians just as much as people love our great sports teams!” 

    By Letters to the Editor March 29, 2022
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    Guest column: And the crowd erupts

    During the downtime of the pandemic, our reliance on artistic expression became very clear to all of us — both performers and audiences — and so did our interdependence. Do not let our pandemic habits become our permanent ones.

    By Elizabeth Rouse March 28, 2022
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    Calkins: Memphis and Hardaway will fight allegations. But this sure doesn’t look good.

    The IARP alleges that Penny Hardaway and Memphis basketball committed multiple Level 1 violations. The university is fighting back. Could this be the beginning of the end for Hardaway? The battle has been joined. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 27, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: A haircut and a lifetime

    “This is about simple celebration, something we simply don’t do enough of because we spend far too much time looking for something grand and glorious to pop our cork.”

    By Dan Conaway March 25, 2022
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    Herrington: Memphis needs more ‘Elvis fans’ like Tommy Kha

    The controversy over Tommy Kha’s photography was about art at the airport. But it was also about the living legacy of old, dead Elvis in the city that made him. 

    By Chris Herrington March 25, 2022
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    Sanford: From Memphis to Washington, Black women make their mark in the law

    Our society’s long-overdue reckoning with racial inequities is not a full-blown offensive to correct 246 years of racial disparities in America. It’s more like baby steps designed to start making our institutions more reflect the makeup of our population.

    By Otis Sanford March 24, 2022
  • Premium Business

    Guest column: FTC cracks down on abusive debt-collection tactics

    The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act governs collection agencies and other third-party collectors.

    By Randy Hutchinson March 19, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: The United States of Gunnysack and Whatabout

    “Both approaches are the desperate acts of people who can’t counter an argument with salient facts or pertinent positions, people reduced to talking points, perhaps, screaming points.”

    By Dan Conaway March 18, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Mason should keep its charter, but must welcome financial help

    The bottom line is Mason’s elected leaders were right not to surrender the charter. They have a legitimate right to exist as an incorporated town.

    By Otis Sanford March 17, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Making the best of Lent

    “I look forward to the return of Lent ... To the return of the Word and waffles Downtown at 102 N. Second St.”

    By Dan Conaway March 11, 2022
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    Guest Column: An open letter to John Konchar

    “All of that aside, John K., it’s no mystery to me why the crowd goes crazy when you get in the game,” says Candace Echols in her open letter to the Grizzlies player.

    By Candace Echols March 10, 2022
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Why Penny Hardaway should be coach of the (half) year

    Penny Hardaway wasn’t named AAC Coach of the Year Wednesday. But no coach in the country has done more in the past two months.

    By Geoff Calkins March 09, 2022
  • Opinion

    A note to readers from Eric Barnes and Andy Cates

    As The Daily Memphian enters its fourth full year covering the Memphis area, we wanted to take a moment to thank you, our readers and supporters.

    By Andy Cates, Eric Barnes March 09, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest column: What is the value of humility?

    “Seeing me struggle, my friend Dave took the pack off my back and began carrying it for me. It was a humbling experience, one that made me think deeply about the virtue of humility.”

    By G. Scott Morris March 06, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Ties that bind, and limit

    Even after all these years and all the meetings I’ve attended, all the projects I’ve worked on, it still amazes me how fast an opportunity to bring us together can turn to sewage.

    By Dan Conaway March 04, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: DA should drop politically charged case over fraudulent voting

    A local race that already had the makings of an intense battle has gotten more interesting. All because of our polar opposite political views on voting rights. Let’s continue that debate.

    By Otis Sanford March 03, 2022
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    Guest Column: It is time to go back to church, to synagogue, to the mosque

    It is time to return because the moral soul of the planet is under threat in the invasion of Ukraine, and we can’t fight this evil via Zoom.

    By G. Scott Morris March 02, 2022
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    Guest column: Pope Francis wants not another church, but a different church

    In churches throughout the world, and right here in Memphis, small groups are gathering to pray and reflect on the future of the church. St. Patrick Catholic Church is trying to heed Pope Francis’ invitation to “journey together.”

    By Val Handwerker March 02, 2022
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Think you’re a Memphis Tigers fan? Meet Julie.

    Julie Barrett went to her very first game at FedExForum Thursday. But you’d have to travel a long way (1,000 miles, anyway) to find a more devoted Memphis Tigers fan. 

    By Geoff Calkins February 28, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Our worst enemy is one of our own

    State Sen. Brian Kelsey embodies the problem Memphis has with the Tennessee General Assembly. In many cases, he is the actual problem Memphis has with the Tennessee General Assembly.

    By Dan Conaway March 04, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Family Dollar customers deserve better than contaminated products

    The expansive discount chain – with seemingly a store on every corner in Memphis — is mired in a financial and public relations nightmare of its own making because it put corporate profits over public safety.

    By Otis Sanford February 24, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Police residency issue is the key to recruitment, retention

    Opinion: Loosening the residency requirement for both the Memphis Police Department and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office is not the sole answer to the law enforcement shortage, but it is a needed and effective tool in recruitment and retention efforts.

    By Bill Gibbons February 19, 2022
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Hello, it’s ... who?

    “I used to think that everyone past a certain age — maybe 15 — should be required to wear a name tag, introduce themselves when they see you including maiden names and nicknames, and be arrested for stealth name calling if they sneak up on you.”

    By Dan Conaway February 18, 2022
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Despite state law, accurate teaching of racial history is alive and well

    “ ... imagine my delight when I learned this week that Memphis-Shelby County Schools and one of its top schools academically — White Station High — intend to press ahead with an even deeper dive into the accurate history of the African American experience in this country.”

    By Otis Sanford February 17, 2022

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