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    Letter to the Editor: Bills favor vaping industry, not public health

    House Bill 705 and Senate Bill 1047 serve to protect the tobacco industry’s financial interests and stop our ability to take local action to protect our youth.

    By Letters to the Editor April 06, 2021
  • Germantown

    Opinion: Towering tank offers opportunity for high-level art

    Unique water towers around the country offer inspiration for City of Germantown.

    By Clay Bailey April 06, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: A pattern for ‘making babies’ teaches diversity

    There is never a day a child can’t be made to smile with a small doll after a visit to the doctor at Church Health that may have seemed scary. 

    By G. Scott Morris April 04, 2021
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    Opinion: Dr. King was an activist, but also a preacher

    ‘Commemorations with little or no consideration for King as preacher, make me wonder how many King admirers are unaware of the transcendent religious experience that was his defining moment.’

    By Warner Davis April 03, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Opinion: Close Riverside Drive to cars; open it to those who really count

    What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us? 

    By Dan Conaway April 02, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Without Dr. King, the 1968 sanitation strike might have been a footnote

    “I believe that if Dr. King had not come to Memphis, my father and his co-workers would have been forced to continue to work under the same terrible conditions that led to the senseless deaths of sanitation workers Robert Walker and Echol Cole.”

    By Johnnie Mosley April 02, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: MIFA lost a staff leader with superpowers

    Phyllis Phillips was a great boss and co-worker, but her real superpower was her network of connections across the city, which she would tap fearlessly to get as many clients as possible the help they needed.

    By Sally Jones Heinz April 01, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Change the law that ties child support to voting

    The intent of the law is not about concern for struggling single mothers, but a means of unfairly denying the right to vote to thousands of Tennesseans.

    By Letters to the Editor March 31, 2021
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    Opinion: Expect a battle before SCS surrenders 3G schools

    Much like the resolution to starting municipal schools in Shelby County’s suburbs, Germantown is backing state legislation to get the 3G schools under its control.

    By Clay Bailey March 30, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Tennessee legislators ignore people’s will on gun laws

    ‘In this climate of higher crime and well-publicized and random mass shootings across America, why would our legislators choose to ignore the will of the people and loosen gun laws?’ 

    By Letters to the Editor March 30, 2021
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: It was a perfect ending for the Tigers

    Memphis won the NIT title Sunday, overwhelming Mississippi State. If it wasn’t the tournament the Tigers had hoped for, it was the triumphant ending they deserved.

    By Geoff Calkins March 28, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: County mayor urges move beyond ‘vaccine skepticism’

    ‘All told, Shelby County has lost over 1,500 lives,’ Mayor Lee Harris writes. ‘That’s more than the number of soldiers from Shelby County lost during the Vietnam War, Korean War and World War II, combined.’

    By Lee Harris March 28, 2021
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    Calkins: ‘Fire and heart’ lift Memphis Tigers into NIT championship game

    The Tigers, like so many other teams, could have opted out of the NIT. It is to their immense credit that they instead opted all the way in.

    By Geoff Calkins March 27, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Opinion: If you’re copying, it’s not yours

    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.

    By Dan Conaway March 26, 2021
  • OPINION Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: No more passes for the General Lee, and shots all around

    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.

    By Chris Herrington March 25, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: New appraisals of flooded Germantown houses are unfair

    ‘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.’

    By Letters to the Editor March 25, 2021
  • Otis Sanford

    Opinion: Waste Pro has got to go

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

    By Otis Sanford March 25, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Favoring electric vehicles is ‘bad policy’

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

    By Letters to the Editor March 24, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Opinion: There are embarrassing people in our House. And Senate.

    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.

    By Dan Conaway March 19, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Don’t eliminate comments

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

    By Letters to the Editor March 19, 2021
  • Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Jarvis Greer is cancer-free — and has something he’d like to tell you

    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. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 19, 2021
  • Otis Sanford

    Opinion: Ford’s handling of Junior Achievement grant reminiscent of past scandals

    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. 

    By Otis Sanford March 21, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Standing for the Asian American community

    ‘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.’

    By Letters to the Editor March 19, 2021
  • Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: For Memphis and the NCAA Tournament, it’s been a seven-year glitch

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

    By Geoff Calkins March 14, 2021
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    Calkins: If heart mattered — and free throws didn’t — this team would be headed to the NCAA Tournament

    If passion and effort were all that mattered, the Memphis Tigers would be headed to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in seven years. But foul shots matter, too. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 13, 2021

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