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?
I believe our current situation is temporary, but it will likely remain through the end of 2021 as we rebuild inventories and reestablish routines.
Even if an MLM opportunity is legitimate, AARP and the FTC say most participants still make little or no money.
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.
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.
Without question, this is another senseless shooting death that could have been avoided in a number of ways.
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?
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.
It remains unclear how far teachers can go in discussing how racial injustice in the past impacts our society today. Republican lawmakers say that discussion is off limits. I say it is necessary.
Isn’t Bryson DeChambeau supposed to be smart? Then why is it, when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, he sounds like such a dummy?
‘I would like to make clear that the initial phases for moving this project from a dream to eventual completion are in the hands of Gov. Bill Lee and the Tennessee Department of Transportation.’
Setting an expectation that attempts to find shared culture and values makes it possible to achieve more than if individual agendas drive each person’s actions.
‘You guys not only care about what I have to say, some of you have colorful suggestions about how I might spend my time and places I might go to spend it.’
Otis Sanford says the dispute between Mayor Lee Harris and County Commissioner Mark Billingsley seems to portend the year ahead for politics in Shelby County.
‘Memphis doesn’t just move the world through its music — although Memphis is mentioned in songs more than any other city in the world. Memphis is indispensable when it comes to transportation, logistics and distribution, moving products around the world as an integral cog in the global supply chain.’
‘Memphis deserves better than to be fretting about conference realignment again. It needs the Big 12 to implode once and for all.’
Just when we’re coming up for air from the plague, the plague that is our Tennessee Legislature and governor have proved – again – that they’re still smothering in stupidity.
Forrest believed that the worth of Black people was only as laborers, nothing more.
‘One of the greatest assets of ballot-marking devices is that ambiguous or indeterminate marks frequently made by voters when marking ballots by hand are completely eliminated,’ says Brent Taylor.
Some companies may have a short-term cash flow crunch that makes them vulnerable to deceptive lending practices.
Opinion: ‘By stripping the Tennessee Department of Health of its vaccine outreach to youths, state lawmakers have also robbed the people of Tennessee of their own autonomy in health care decision-making.’
Until importers can no longer pay the astronomical rates of our industry, rates will unfortunately continue to rise.
It seems past president Trump has some tax problems. I can relate.
Otis Sanford: ‘I am calling on all Memphians to honor Wells this week and beyond by committing to help forge a more peaceful city. Deadly gun violence does not have to be just the way it is in the big city.’
The formation of the Soulsville USA Neighborhoods Development District was not an overnight creation but was and is, a culmination of years of hard work, planning and community engagement at the grassroots level.