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    Mama Bears: Cam Spencer’s mom hopes her son’s NBA road is a long one

    Cam Spencer’s grandfather was known for saying, “Enjoy the journey,” encouraging the people he loved not to focus so hard on the destination they miss the fun of the road that gets them there.

    By Candace Echols May 10, 2025
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    Calkins: He’s a combat veteran who used to think he was dumb. Now he’s graduating from Memphis — with honors.

    Eric Daniels is a combat veteran who once failed sixth, seventh and eighth grades. He’s also one of 2,759 students who will receive a diploma from the University of Memphis Saturday.

    By Geoff Calkins May 10, 2025
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    Opinion: The appraisal trap

    “There are communities that want less blight, more opportunity, and more stability, but find themselves weighed down by systemic restraints. The problem isn’t the quality of the home — it’s the value assigned to the land.”

    By Zachary Amos May 09, 2025
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    Herrington: Memphis Grizzlies 2025 offseason roster rankings, Part 2

    Chris Herrington counts down from No. 9 to No. 1 in the second installment of his two-part, offseason Memphis Grizzlies player rankings list.

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    Grizzlies Insider: Memphis still waiting for All-NBA results

    By Chris Herrington May 09, 2025
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    Conaway: We are the target; we are the catch

    “Like a .30-06 Springfield with a buck in the sights, the curricula in our schools have become a target, and our history has become fair game.”

    By Dan Conaway May 09, 2025
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    Mama Bears: On Jaylen Wells’ journey to NBA, his mother has cheered him on

    “He doesn’t care about the glitz and glam of all of this stuff,” Laketia Wells said about her son. “He just lives.”

    By Candace Echols May 10, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Federal budget cuts threaten protections for seniors

    “A vital program for seniors faces elimination in a preliminary federal budget — a decision that, if approved by Congress, would leave our most vulnerable elders without advocates during their most critical time of need.”

    By Sally Jones Heinz May 07, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: On STD rates, we need to start having ‘uncomfortable conversations’

    “If middle school students are having unprotected sex and contracting sexually transmitted infections, do we really think they are going to log onto a website and order a test?”

    By Erica May May 07, 2025
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Central’s jazz band is playing Lincoln Center. And it’s thanks to y’all.

    Ollie Liddell, the director of bands at Central High, wasn’t sure how his jazz band would get to the Essentially Ellington contest at Lincoln Center. Then Memphians came through for him.

    By Geoff Calkins May 12, 2025
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    Herrington: Grizzlies bet on coaching-history carryover with Tuomas Iisalo

    Tuomas Iisalo only got to coach fifteen games and have two practices, but the work he did in his interim role was enough to earn him the full-time coaching job.

    By Chris Herrington May 05, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: This life we’re all living — it’s weird

    “Life comes at us utterly unannounced. No spoiler alerts. No accurate forecasts. No fortune tellers. It’s just us and time. And for me, God.”

    By Candace Echols May 04, 2025
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    Morris: Our local officials are committed to making Memphis better

    “The City Council and County Commission meetings are often long, complicated and filled with technical language. But underneath all of it is a deep commitment to the city’s future.”

    By G. Scott Morris May 04, 2025
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Struggle and sacrifice, set in stone, set afire, set to rise again

    “We cannot escape our responsibility to our place in history any more than a fire can burn down what happened at Clayborn Temple.”

    By Dan Conaway May 02, 2025
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Taylor, White put MSCS takeover bill in spin cycle

    After the Memphis-Shelby County Schools takeover bills failed to make it to the finish line, state Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Eads, and state Rep. Mark White, R-Memphis, changed their messaging. 

    By Otis Sanford May 01, 2025
  • Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: RFK said kids with autism will never hold a job? Don’t tell this Memphian.

    Kim Jameson is a Memphian who founded a program at Christian Brothers University to help people with autism succeed not just at college but in life.

    By Geoff Calkins May 06, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Why state legislators decided to wait on MSCS oversight board

    “Our decision to wait reflects our belief that effective reform must be evidence-based. Without the audit’s insights, we risk implementing solutions that are either too heavy-handed or insufficiently robust.”

    By Brent Taylor, Mark White April 30, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Memphis Allies must press forward

    Pastor Terrell Monger on how the work of Memphis Allies is “difficult, dangerous and exhausting.” But it is “essential we all work together to save as many lives as we can.”

    By Terrell Monger April 29, 2025
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: On Clayborn Temple’s final day, shaken Memphians came to pay their respects

    The city can feel like it’s in crisis. The country can feel like it’s in crisis. And Monday, we all woke up to the news that Clayborn Temple had burned down.

    Related content:

    Landmark Clayborn Temple total loss after pre-dawn fire

    By Geoff Calkins May 05, 2025
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    Herrington: Reacting to nine notable end-of-season Grizzlies quotes

    Chris Herrington breaks down what the Memphis Grizzlies were saying one day after their 2024-25 season ended and what he thinks it really means.

    By Chris Herrington April 28, 2025
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    Herrington: Keep it together or break it up? Grizzlies offseason decisions start at the ‘core.’

    There have been a lot of whispers in recent weeks of the potential for major change on the Grizzlies roster this summer.

    By Chris Herrington April 28, 2025
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    Hutchinson: Beware of fake reviews

    “About 30% of online reviews are fake and cost U.S. businesses nearly $152 billion per year in damaged reputations and lost revenue.”

    By Randy Hutchinson April 27, 2025
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    Herrington: Missing Morant? Coming up short? That was the Grizzlies’ series and season.

    “As overmatched as the Grizzlies often seemed, there’s every reason to believe this series would have been going back to Oklahoma City 2-2 if Ja Morant hadn’t gotten hurt in Game 3.”

    By Chris Herrington April 27, 2025
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    Herrington: Ja’s fall, JJJ’s touches and other Grizz-Thunder thoughts

    The Memphis Grizzlies think they found a formula to combat the Oklahoma City Thunder. But is there any hope of deploying it without Ja Morant?

    By Chris Herrington April 25, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Remembering Holocaust is act of resistance

    “On Wednesday, 600-plus members of our Memphis Jewish community gathered for our 63rd annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration, a solemn and vital moment for remembrance and reflection.”

    By Laura Linder April 25, 2025
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    Conaway: A journey to my tomorrow and the path of my yesterday

    “As you read this, I’m headed east on Interstate 40 to a reading and book signing of ‘Never Over The Hill,’ a memoir I coauthored with Bill Haltom about our time in college.”

    By Dan Conaway April 25, 2025

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