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    Opinion: A bad look for Collierville Schools

    Here's hoping that Collierville Schools will realize the press wasn't out to be its enemy in covering a high school football game. Only providing reporting of high school sports as we've always done.

    By Clay Bailey August 24, 2020
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    Ten weeks from Election Day, does Biden have a chance in Mid-South?

    One convention down, one to go, and one question on many people’s minds: Who’s going to win the presidential election?

    By Michael Nelson August 24, 2020
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: COVID 19 is heartbreaking. Literally.

    Broken heart syndrome is defined by the Mayo Clinic as a temporary heart condition that’s often brought on by stressful situations and extreme emotions.

    By Dan Conaway August 21, 2020
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Liberty Park, Poplar Plaza and The Ravine bring potential change to city’s center

    We're used to large-scale alterations underway on sites Downtown, but landscapes are also changing at some promising and high-profile properties farther East. 

    By Chris Herrington August 20, 2020
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    Sanford: Time to start ‘Votes for Bertha,’ because the struggle continues

    Reader suggests a 'Votes for Bertha' campaign in honor of my mother, who faced down resistance to register to vote 56 years ago in Panola County. She would be so pleased.

    By Otis Sanford August 20, 2020
  • Opinion

    Long: ‘We need more label-defying people like Charles Evers’

    Evers was elected the first African-American mayor in Mississippi post-Reconstruction and he would mount an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid to become Mississippi’s first Black governor in 1971.

    By Robert Lee Long August 20, 2020
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    Nelson: ‘Are you really the Republican or Democrat you think you are?’

    Two online quizzes want to help you find out which party is truly aligned with your beliefs. One questionnaire is better than the other, but both might surprise you.

    By Michael Nelson August 17, 2020
  • Opinion Guest Columnists

    The world came together to fight polio. Why not the coronavirus?

    Isn’t it a shame that to battle the novel coronavirus, a major campaign has not yet been launched unilaterally and on a global scale?

    By Robert Lee Long August 14, 2020
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Memory of Steve Montgomery produces smile, even in the midst of tears

    While thousands considered Steve a friend, it never felt like thousands when you visited with him. It was just you and Steve. He listened to you, you the homeless, you the wealthy, you the mover and shaker and you the one being moved and shaken.

    By Dan Conaway August 14, 2020
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Elvis Week gets ‘modified,’ ‘immersive’ (and more)

    Those who are showing up for the pandemic version of Elvis Week are getting a first look at new interactive exhibits – "Elvis Movie Match Game," "Elvis Yourself" – that will become permanent fixtures at the complex across from Graceland.

    By Chris Herrington August 13, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    How many more MPD officers do we need, and how do we get them?

    Loosening the residency requirement would make it easier for Memphis to create racial diversity in the ranks of MPD with smart, targeted recruiting. But in a perplexing vote, the Memphis City Council decided to remove the residency referendum from the Nov. 3 ballot.

    By Bill Gibbons August 13, 2020
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Biden’s bet on Harris is backed by the numbers

    Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is counting on his choice of running mate Kamala Harris to bring in new and reenergized voters in key battleground states.

    By Otis Sanford August 12, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: You don’t have to join a protest to be an ally in a cause

    Many organizations are working on worthwhile causes. Many of these organizations are nonprofits, often with limited funding and staff, who are looking for volunteers to serve as advocates.

    By Renee Bailey August 12, 2020
  • Nelson Opinion

    ‘He was Memphis’ Indiana Jones, Marco Polo, P.T Barnum and James Bond’

    Richard Halliburton spent his short life “living poetry instead of writing it.”

    By Michael Nelson August 10, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Montgomery and Idlewild ‘prayed my babies to life’

    When our world turned upside down on Jan. 25, 2002, Pastor Steve Montgomery and the Idlewild Presbyterian congregation not only fed our souls, but also our bodies.

    By Angie Mock August 09, 2020
  • Guest Column Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Let’s dream of a city that works for everyone

    Over the course of a year I saw first hand the renovation and reselling of homes in my neighborhood, and I saw the people who came with it. After all, I was one of them. Who is this “New Memphis” for?

    By Charles Layne August 08, 2020
  • Opinion Opinion

    Nelson: Can the Democrats win November Senate elections in Tennessee and Mississippi?

    Stranger things have happened. Heck, Ronald Reagan carried New York – twice. 

    By Michael Nelson August 07, 2020
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    Conaway: The rest of the world has to wonder, what in the world are we thinking?

    There will be a vaccine for COVID-19. In the meantime, we will continue to suffer from chronic, fatal stupidity.

    By Dan Conaway August 07, 2020
  • Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Policing – and walking – in Memphis (and more)

    Some find it galling that the City Council pulled back a public referendum on the police residency question. I dunno, I’d say the point of representative democracy is to elect officials and ask them to deliberate and make informed judgments.

    By Chris Herrington August 06, 2020
  • Guest Column Guest Columnists

    Opinion: UTHSC experts outline hurdles to vaccine

    The data on inducing COVID-19 immune responses are promising, but it is not clear yet whether this will result in limited protection, modest protection or complete protection from either infection or disease. As we know from influenza vaccines, even partial protection may have benefit.

    By Jon McCullers, Scott Strome August 06, 2020
  • Opinion Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Primary election politics are not about honesty

    A majority of Americans trust Dr. Anthony Fauci to tell the truth about the pandemic. But Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Manny Sethi, hoping to impress President Trump, says Fauci needs to go. 

    By Otis Sanford August 06, 2020
  • Guest Column Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Has the GOP’s ‘big tent’ folded?

    The party with which I have self-identified for much of my adult life, the Republican Party, has failed to live up to its “big tent” credo of inclusiveness and belonging.

    By Robert Lee Long August 06, 2020
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    Opinion: Separate school systems allow choice in pandemic

    The pandemic presents everyone with unique and unprecedented options. No school district has ever decided such matters, and there may not be a “one-size-fits-all” direction to take in this.

    By Clay Bailey August 05, 2020
  • Opinion

    Our election coverage is free. Producing it is not.

    It’s a community service to put election stories outside the paywall. And yet, bluntly, our decision also comes with a cost. Because producing this news is expensive.

    By Eric Barnes August 05, 2020
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    Opinion: The Outdoors Act brought us together

    Bipartisan support for this bill – including by Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, Republican U.S. Rep. David Kustoff, and Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander – speaks volumes about the value of parks in our lives. 

    By Carol Coletta August 05, 2020

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