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    Sanford: We can reclaim the unity that followed 9/11

    After the most horrific attack on American soil in our lifetime, we stood unified against a common enemy. And, despite our differences today, I believe we can do so again. 

    By Otis Sanford September 09, 2021
  • Opinion

    Opinion: A handgun holstered in view seems out of place

    A peaceful morning in a residential area seems a bit out of place for a gunman walking the streets.

    By Clay Bailey September 09, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Taking the privilege of rest

    I expected our team to come back refreshed and ready to meet new challenges. But our post-sabbatical survey told us that this time had an even deeper impact.

    By Natalie McKinney September 06, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Find those offering moral leadership amid division

    The truth is that America has never been a country where everyone just got along and lived in harmony.

    By G. Scott Morris September 05, 2021
  • Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Is race a reason Memphis gets left out of realignment?

    At a time when diversity is supposedly valued in education, you’d think Memphis would be an important addition to the Big 12. Instead, the conference is preparing to add BYU, where just 1% of the student body is Black.

    By Geoff Calkins September 03, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: People taught, people touched, people who will remember

    If you have friends like that, you’re fortunate. If you have friends like that, especially in the time we’ve lived through and the people we’ve lost, let them know what they mean to you.

    By Dan Conaway September 03, 2021
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: COVID-19 has highlighted our many differences, but we can overcome them

    So yes, COVID has laid bare our social inequities and made our divisiveness seem irreparable. It is not.

    By Otis Sanford September 02, 2021
  • Music

    The Playlist: Artists can take projects from start to finish in Memphis

    Our desire for convenience begat streaming, but our desire for experiences never went away. It’s old meets new. Just like Memphis.

    By Elizabeth Cawein September 01, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Looking back, moving forward

    A lot of us forget that memory is selective and if we actually could go back to times we fondly remember, we would probably run from the reality we find.

    By Dan Conaway August 27, 2021
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: In the battle against COVID, let’s listen to the experts and ignore the nonsense

    And now that the Food and Drug Administration has moved the Pfizer vaccine from emergency-use authorization to full approval, I expect to see more employers, public and private, requiring the vaccine as a condition of employment.

    By Otis Sanford August 26, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Seat belts and masking

    In our infectious disease practice, one COVID death every few days is now common. Yes, these deaths could have been prevented by vaccination, but they could also have been prevented through masking.

    By Manoj Jain August 25, 2021
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    Letters to the Editor: We have a shot at ending the COVID-19 crisis. Let’s get it done.

    By getting the vaccine, you are protecting not only yourself but your family, co-workers and the entire community. You are also helping to ensure that our health care facilities retain the capacity to care for patients who are seriously ill with other disorders.

    By Letters to the Editor August 24, 2021
  • opinion Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Best way to honor Danton Barto is to get the shot that would’ve saved his life

    Danton Barto, the all-time leading tackler in Memphis football history, has died of COVID-19. Before he died, he asked his wife to get vaccinated. The best way for Tigers fans to honor him would be to roll up their sleeves for No. 59. 

    By Geoff Calkins August 24, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: The virus is not political, but our policy choices are

    We’ve all seemingly decided that virtual instruction is a sub-optimal policy choice, and that classroom instruction is worth the additional risk.

    By Mick Wright August 23, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Knowingly exposing children to COVID is not a right, it’s morally wrong

    In fact, Governor Lee’s stupidity could quite literally take your breath away and the breath of those you love.

    By Dan Conaway August 20, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Use the resources we have to limit lives lost, support learning

    The widely believed notion that COVID-19 is only an adult problem is patently false.

    By Steve Threlkeld August 19, 2021
  • Opinion

    Opinion: The latest push for consolidation is a waste of time

    Whatever good could come from consolidating Memphis and Shelby County governments doesn’t have a chance of passage as long as the dual vote is required.

    By Clay Bailey August 19, 2021
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Our governor is failing us just when we need leadership the most

    How did a seemingly rational, successful, God-fearing businessman – albeit with no previous political or government experience – so easily become a wavering tool of the far right without exhibiting so much as a shred of credible leadership?

    By Otis Sanford August 19, 2021
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    Opinion: Growing list of variables facing global supply chain

    I believe our current situation is temporary, but it will likely remain through the end of 2021 as we rebuild inventories and reestablish routines.

    By Gene Key August 18, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Do your homework when considering multilevel marketing

    Even if an MLM opportunity is legitimate, AARP and the FTC say most participants still make little or no money.

    By Randy Hutchinson August 17, 2021
  • Chris Herrington

    Herrington: From anti-mask to ‘exceptionalism,’ a two-front schools battle our kids don’t need

    Our schools: A two-front political battlefield our kids didn’t ask for and really don’t need right now. Education shouldn’t be conscription, especially in the service of others’ political ambitions.

    By Chris Herrington August 13, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Pretty much nothing happened. And pretty much everything.

    Spouses and children and grandchildren and family histories — and genes — join us at table in spirit and stories and challenges. Just some guys ... talking about nothing and everything.

    By Dan Conaway August 13, 2021
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Alvin Motley was entitled to freedom too, but was needlessly killed instead

    Without question, this is another senseless shooting death that could have been avoided in a number of ways.

    By Otis Sanford August 12, 2021
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: It’s a magical moment in Memphis sports

    Penny Hardaway has the No. 1 recruit in the country, the golf tournament has never been better, the Tigers football team has been to seven straight bowl games and Ja Morant calls FedExForum home. Has there ever been a more promising moment for Memphis sports?

    By Geoff Calkins August 07, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Opinion: We’re not blue or red, we’re the whole box of crayons

    Only 24% of Americans identify as Republican... Only 30% identify as Democrat... Yet we allow ourselves to let those two parties label all of us as if we were one or the other.

    By Dan Conaway August 06, 2021

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