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Guest Columnists Of all the health care issues that any community faces, infant mortality causes the most heartbreak. Nothing matters more than giving our babies – each and every one of them – a fighting chance. Nowhere has it mattered more than in Memphis. -
Guest Columnists Trauma is connected to many of the daunting problems in our country
Accusations of sexual assault and resulting trauma have dominated the news during the last few weeks. In its wake a much-needed public debate has ensued about how the memory works when one experiences a trauma. -
Guest Columnists
Congressman Cohen visits Memphians attending U.S. Naval Academy
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – For U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman C.J. McCoy of Memphis, whose goal is to be a naval aviator, the life lesson that got him here is straight forward: “Don’t give up.” -
Dan Conaway
Conaway: Not No, But Hell No
We, my friends, are being had – and we should have none of it. -
Chris Herrington
Montgomery to Memphis
If you want to really know your country, Memphis is a good place to start. Artists such as Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley brought American culture together and sent it around the world from a studio only steps from where a slave trader was celebrated in a city park. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for economic justice, climbed to the mountaintop, and was taken by an assassin’s bullet, all within a triangle separated by a couple of miles. -
Otis Sanford
Taylor Swift won’t give Bredesen an upset victory, an oversized voter turnout in Shelby County will
Taylor Swift may have gotten all the media attention for potentially upping the vote. -
Dan Conaway
Conaway: It all depends on your point of view
Coming from Arkansas, it looks like Oz. -
Metro
The Memphis 10: Trump visit, aftermath of Trenary murder mark a messy week
It was a week of sobering news and a news-making Presidential visit. Because the opening items underscore reckonings that came, alternately, from us and to us, I kept it light on the rest of this week’s 10. -
Otis Sanford
Trenary’s legacy lives on and we’re all obligated to help carry his work forward
What might he have been thinking? And what was he saying? -
Suburbs
Suburban Dispatch: Education Awards, who’s that candidate and other notes
On Sundays we’re going to try to catch up on the week’s news, late-breaking items, observations and perhaps a recap of stories that were particularly interesting. -
Dan Conaway
Conaway: How can a place so warm and soulful in so many ways be so cold and soulless
Thursday night, Memphis took a bullet. -
Opinion
Barnes: Phil Trenary worked to make Memphis better. His work must continue.
Phil Trenary was a friend who I met through work. I think this was probably true of many of Phil’s friends. They met him through work. That’s because Phil’s work, his passion for so many years, was to make Memphis, this city he loved, a better place. -
Chris Herrington
The Memphis 10: ‘Tennessee values’ in the Bredesen-Blackburn race, Brooks ‘Outside,’ Mark Edgar Stuart’s new album, and more
Welcome back to The Memphis 10, the only place where you'll find Marsha Blackburn and the Oblivians hanging out together. -
Dan Conaway
Conaway: Memphis is one of a kind
Really unique is really not. Memphis is. -
Otis Sanford
Lee seems well-positioned to break the 52-year trend of the governor’s office alternating between the two major parties - or is he?
If you believe the polls, Republican Bill Lee is steamrolling toward victory in the Tennessee governor’s race. -
Guest Columnists
A Downtown Memphis, walked
As developments across the Downtown Memphis landscape compound, desire for consumption by and connectivity between people is a universal sentiment. Our investors, architects and developers, funders and supporters believe that attracting people is the greatest indicator of a vibrant center city. -
Dan Conaway
Memphasis: All Funked Up
(This was my first column some 400-plus columns ago. I was looking for a word that most aptly describes Memphis. Just one word …) -
Chris Herrington
The Memphis 10: Al Green and Willie Herenton return, Kyle Taylor paints, and more
The heritage of Hi Records brackets this first weekly list, with the sound of Al Green and the image of guitarist/songwriter Teenie Hodges making unexpected appearances. Elsewhere, our criminal justice system bears watching, next year’s mayor’s race gets weird, and our food trucks get some pub. -
Otis Sanford
Potentially game-changing Blackburn-Bredesen Senate race features two strategies: national vs. local
Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is doing all she can to nationalize her race for the U.S. Senate.
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