In the past year I have taken over 1,900 calls to 911, and I’m convinced that a refresher course is in order for children and adults alike. Here are some tips to help you become an effective 911 caller.

People say wait, give things a chance. Take a limb and scratch it. Look for green. If there’s even a trace of green, there’s hope for recovery.

Tony Ludlow served his country for a decade. He didn’t do it to protect the right of the misguided to make the rest of us sick. So if you want to join his boot camp, you’ll have to show him proof of vaccination first. 

Mom got her second dose of the Moderna vaccine not long ago. We celebrated by taking her to Disney World. It was a magical experience — made possible by the magic of the vaccine.

At various times throughout our history, all levels of government have mandated vaccines and not once have we drifted down that slippery slope towards tyranny.

As I have watched the evidence meticulously unfold against Chauvin, I have also thought about the highly-respected late Memphis attorney S. Shepherd Tate and the role he played in making televised trials possible.

The children at Perea are taught that if they come across a gun, they are to “Stop, don’t touch, turn around, tell an adult.” The sad fact is that many of them can already tell the teacher exactly where the guns in their houses are hidden.

This pandemic has at times warranted the federal and state government assuming emergency powers. Those powers should have been limited in scope and rescinded as quickly as possible.

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.

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

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. 

‘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.’

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

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

‘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?’ 

‘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.’

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.

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.

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.

‘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.’

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