Dan Conaway: While we ignore Mud island, we’re giving Tom Lee Park more plastic surgery than the attendees at the Academy Awards, and if we’re going to make the Fairgrounds ours, the Coliseum has to be part of it and original thinking is required.

The iconography atop the General Lee is the battle flag of a slavery republic. Violence in the name of white supremacy is its inherent, explicit meaning.

‘I recently received a new appraisal that did not reflect the fact that my property was flooded at all. On top of this unfair/unwarranted rate, we have been informed that re-assessments will take place more often in the future to account for growing property values.’

It’s time for the city to cancel its five-year, $33.1 million contract with Waste Pro.

“ ‘Zero emission’ is a misnomer. Electric vehicles must be recharged regularly using electricity generated by power plants.”

Maybe the state’s largest population areas will get out the vote and get Tennessee into the 21st century. Georgia called. They want us to know that it’s possible.

Without the comment section, it is a one-way narrative of the writer, who almost always leaves out questions that need to be answered. 

Jarvis Greer, the legendary WMC-TV sports anchor, has a message for Memphians about his recent cancer surgery. But it includes words that might make you squirm. 

An independent investigation by attorney Brian Faughnan flatly accuses Ford of deliberately deceiving his fellow commissioners by failing to disclose to them his obvious conflict of interest. To call Faughnan’s report damning is an understatement. 

‘While we have lived for a year with one type of fear and anxiety, we cannot let the COVID-19 virus stoke fear in the other.’

Memphis will be sitting out the NCAA Tournament yet again this year. Here’s a reason for hope (and some reasons to despair).

We have made the decision to turn off the commenting sections on our articles until we can find a better way of including comments within The Daily Memphian.

Paul Thomas says holding back third-graders can create long-lasting problems, and another letter writer, Duffy-Marie Arnoult, says we must protect the Memphis Sands Aquifer.

We bottled our water and sent it to Flint residents to help with their water contamination crisis, so why would we consider endangering our Memphis Sands Aquifer?

“Tennessee must not fall prey to trendy political gimmicks that harm children and do not address the needs of those children learning to read.”

The shot I’m getting is hard to get, and costs more than our first house. The stuff in this syringe must come from cells scraped from the belly of the dragon Smaug by Hobbits.

“Crime reduction is clearly a complex conversation.”

Voter suppression is very much alive and well in 2021. The cruel violence that once accompanied it has been replaced by underhanded legislative tactics at various statehouses controlled by Republicans.

After seven years as president of the University of Memphis, David Rudd is stepping down. He is one of the greatest presidents in the history of the place.

The FDA has found hundreds of dietary supplements containing ingredients that weren’t listed on the label. 

Gov. Bill Lee and his allies in the state legislature are pushing “permitless carry” legislation, which would allow Tennesseans to carry loaded firearms without permits in public spaces.

It only took a dozen days after that March 8 news conference for Mayor Jim Strickland to invoke the first civil emergency order in Memphis in more than a generation, closing gyms, bars and indoor restaurant dining.

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‘I suspect most people who read this will think that anti-Semitism is nothing we need to worry about in Memphis, but they are wrong. Wherever white supremacy exists it is led by those who hate Jews.’

Our Health Department director sacrificed a tremendous amount personally in a difficult crisis to serve us along with the two mayors and COVID task force, and has had a major contribution in keeping us safe.