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    A note about reader comments

    We have made the decision to turn off the commenting sections on our articles until we can find a better way of including comments within The Daily Memphian.

     

    By Eric Barnes, Ronnie Ramos March 12, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor: Grade retention and protecting the aquifer

    Paul Thomas says holding back third-graders can create long-lasting problems, and another letter writer, Duffy-Marie Arnoult, says we must protect the Memphis Sands Aquifer.

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Don’t jeopardize the Memphis Sands aquifer

    We bottled our water and sent it to Flint residents to help with their water contamination crisis, so why would we consider endangering our Memphis Sands Aquifer?

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Grade retention harms children

    “Tennessee must not fall prey to trendy political gimmicks that harm children and do not address the needs of those children learning to read.”

    By Letters to the Editor March 12, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Opinion: Fill a prescription. Or buy a house.

    The shot I’m getting is hard to get, and costs more than our first house. The stuff in this syringe must come from cells scraped from the belly of the dragon Smaug by Hobbits.

    By Dan Conaway March 12, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: With ‘historic crime,’ let’s end the foolishness and let police live where they want

    “Crime reduction is clearly a complex conversation.”

    By Daniel Chatham March 11, 2021
  • Otis Sanford

    Opinion: Legislative roadblocks to voting are reminders of our shameful past

    Voter suppression is very much alive and well in 2021. The cruel violence that once accompanied it has been replaced by underhanded legislative tactics at various statehouses controlled by Republicans.

    By Otis Sanford March 11, 2021
  • Memphis Tigers Basketball

    Calkins: David Rudd has been an unstoppable force for Memphis

    After seven years as president of the University of Memphis, David Rudd is stepping down. He is one of the greatest presidents in the history of the place.

    By Geoff Calkins March 10, 2021
  • Opinion

    Opinion: Taking dietary supplements can be harmful

    The FDA has found hundreds of dietary supplements containing ingredients that weren’t listed on the label. 

    By Randy Hutchinson March 09, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Gun permits are needed to keep us safe

    Gov. Bill Lee and his allies in the state legislature are pushing “permitless carry” legislation, which would allow Tennesseans to carry loaded firearms without permits in public spaces.

    By Kathryn McRitchie March 08, 2021
  • COVID: A Year Later City of Memphis

    Herrington: 12 days that changed Memphis, 12 months later

    It only took a dozen days after that March 8 news conference for Mayor Jim Strickland to invoke the first civil emergency order in Memphis in more than a generation, closing gyms, bars and indoor restaurant dining.

    Related story:

    Year 1 of the novel coronavirus pandemic, by the numbers

    By Chris Herrington March 22, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: The ‘irrational disease’ of anti-Semitism persists

    ‘I suspect most people who read this will think that anti-Semitism is nothing we need to worry about in Memphis, but they are wrong. Wherever white supremacy exists it is led by those who hate Jews.’

    By G. Scott Morris March 07, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Alisa Haushalter deserves justice

    Our Health Department director sacrificed a tremendous amount personally in a difficult crisis to serve us along with the two mayors and COVID task force, and has had a major contribution in keeping us safe.

    By Letters to the Editor March 05, 2021
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Opinion: Fire and ice. And friendship.

    You may have seen the photo with the story about the brutal weather — firefighters pushing to free an ambulance stuck in the snow and ice. Michael Rowland was in that ambulance. Nothing brings the value of friendship into focus like a threat to a friend. 

    By Dan Conaway March 05, 2021
  • Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Protecting Memphis water, the best of Craig Brewer and more

    With available, clean drinking water an increasingly precious commodity, Memphis’ supply is perhaps the city’s most important asset. We did nothing to earn it. But it’s on us to preserve and manage it. 

    By Chris Herrington March 04, 2021
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Opinion: Vaccine blunders make Harris vulnerable in 2022 reelection bid

    The vaccine distribution debacle on Mayor Lee Harris’ watch will figure prominently in the GOP campaign to retake his office, the party’s Shelby County executive director says. 

    By Otis Sanford March 04, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: TVA’s service during recent winter weather speaks for itself

    Tennessee was not “insulated” from cold weather. Temperatures in Memphis were similar to parts of Arkansas and Texas. What was significantly different was the safe, reliable power delivery to Memphians that avoided rolling blackouts that crippled other areas of the country.

    By Mark Yates March 02, 2021
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    Opinion: Let’s fix how we make local decisions during a health crisis

    “It’s time to claw back the power our public health institutions have accumulated this year. That’s the goal of Tennessee House Bill 7,” says guest columnist Daniel Chatham, a Shelby County physician.

    By Daniel Chatham March 02, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Lessons from the grassroots environmental victory at Overton Park

    How did a small group of citizens persevere for so long to block an interstate route through the park? They cultivated relationships with the place, through walks in the forest and picnics by the lake. Close connections led to enduring affection.

    By Brooks Lamb March 02, 2021
  • Dan Conaway

    Opinion: We all need the bridge to Binghampton

    Binghampton is at the very center of our city but far from the center of our attention. We drive through it en masse every day on Walnut Grove and Sam Cooper, largely ignoring the decline to our left and right.

    By Dan Conaway February 26, 2021
  • Otis Sanford

    Opinion: Voter suppression efforts still on the minds of state GOP lawmakers

    Among the misguided proposals presented at the Tennessee Legislature, none would have as much negative impact on the majority of Tennesseans as the bill introduced last week to abolish early voting in the state.

    By Otis Sanford March 01, 2021
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor: Shelby County should get vaccine advice from Mississippi

    “Shelby County does not need help from the federal government or Chick-fil-A or FedEx. They just need to ask our neighbors in Mississippi!”

    By Letters to the Editor February 24, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Memphis avoided power blackouts. Here’s why

    Why did we, in Memphis, not have power service interruption? The simple answer is that Tennessee did not receive the brunt of the severe weather like other states did.

    By Jim Gilliland Jr. March 01, 2021
  • Premium Visual Arts

    Opinion: A peaceful pandemic moment at Brooks – ‘just me and the art’

    The gallery resonated deeply with what we’re experiencing right now, outside the walls, in real time.

    By Elizabeth Rouse February 23, 2021
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Lent, fasting and raising the minimum wage

    During this Lent, the Prophet Isaiah’s strident call — given in God’s name — asks us to do our fasting by “releasing those bound unjustly.” May that perspective lead us in our national debate on raising, for the first time in 12 years, our federal minimum wage.

    By Val Handwerker February 23, 2021

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