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    Nelson: Pink Palace’s Tiger hoops exhibit is Memphis in a nutshell

    In the University of Memphis Tigers' basketball museum exhibition, history is marked as B.F. and A.F. The F is for Finch.

    By Michael Nelson March 10, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Hyde: Methodist Le Bonheur ‘uniquely qualified’ to buy Saint Francis Hospitals

    Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is focused on access, racial disparities in health care, gerontology, technology, quality improvement and cost management. Its purchase of Saint Francis Hospitals is an opportunity to leverage these priorities for even more of Memphis and Shelby County.

    By Pitt Hyde March 09, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    A message to ‘Stay Woke’ at Lenten Preaching Series

    Rev. Sonia Louden Walker is the speaker Tuesday, March 10, for the Calvary Lenten Preaching Series, which continues Tuesdays to Fridays through April 3 at Calvary Episcopal Church, 102 N. Second St.

    By Sonia Louden Walker March 08, 2020
  • Opinion

    Sanford: Black voters bring Uncle Joe back

    Voters are yearning to be free – of the nutty, crude and corrupt. They want moderation in our national politics, and a center-left leader at the helm of the executive branch whom everyone knows and a majority of Americans trust.

    By Otis Sanford March 06, 2020
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: A new knee and old comfort from Calvary’s Waffle Shop

    We have sure and certain knowledge of homemade mayonnaise. Yea and verily, shrimp mousse and tomato aspic jiggle. Behold the turnip greens and be glad in them. Take the fish pudding by faith.

    By Dan Conaway March 05, 2020
  • Opinion

    Nelson: What comes after Super Tuesday? Weird Wednesday

    And in the race for Shelby County General Sessions Court clerk, candidates with experience relevant to the job but names unknown to the voters lost the usual game of local musical-chairs politics. Joe Brown, the Democrat. Paul Boyd, the Republican. These guys again? 

    By Michael Nelson March 04, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Coronavirus: What would a pandemic mean for Memphis?

    Dr. Jon McCullers of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine answers key questions about the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. Faculty and staff from UTHSC will play a large role in the clinical care of patients with the disease COVID-19 when it reaches Memphis.

    By Jon McCullers March 03, 2020
  • Opinion

    Nelson: Tennessee almost always a bellwether for Democratic nomination

    The biggest difference between Al Gore in '88 and Michael Bloomberg '20 is the amount of money each could spend on Super Tuesday. Gore’s campaign was adequately funded by donors and federal campaign subsidies. Bloomberg’s has been spectacularly financed, with every dollar coming from his $60 billion-plus fortune. 

    By Michael Nelson March 02, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Morris: Put fear of coronavirus in perspective

    I believe the solution to most matters of fear is to embrace the opposite of fear: love. This is rarely what people want to hear from the doctor. They are looking for the right medicine or course of treatment.

    By G. Scott Morris March 02, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Some cancer patients are luckier than others when it comes to insurance

    More than 40 states – though currently not Tennessee – have passed legislation that ensures that all cancer treatments are covered in the same way, and with the same cost-sharing requirements.

    By Ken Billett February 29, 2020
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Protecting our water, celebrating our music, arguing about our basketball

    The city's greatest asset faces threats, Memphis has some 'High Fidelity' moments, and the mecca of chicken and donuts has an East Memphis location.

    By Chris Herrington February 28, 2020
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Forget the texts and tweets; look for elves

    Dan Swanson made a table from two Minnesota oak trees. Posey Hedges makes new wood look a century old. Gaines Conaway is reshaping a farmhouse that partly dates to 1872. In a time of fleeting texts and ceaseless emoji, look for things crafted over time, relationships built from deeper places.

    By Dan Conaway February 28, 2020
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Voting is serious. Just ask 105-year-old Charlotte Robertson

    Election commission records show Robertson has participated in every presidential election going back to the 1970s – and no doubt long before that. And she rarely misses a Memphis municipal, county or state election, including primaries.

    By Otis Sanford February 27, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Blight Authority targets nuisance properties for demolition

    The Blight Authority hears reports that range from structurally unsafe homes with gaping holes that serve as playgrounds for neighborhood children to accounts of bulk pesticides to ward off the rodents and pests that inhabit abandoned properties. 

    By Leslie Smith February 26, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Interstate 69: ‘The last great American highway’

    Then-Mayor Willie Herenton was such a supporter of I-69, he hosted the Mid-Continent Highway Coalition’s first meeting in November 1992 at The Peabody. Around 50 business and community leaders from all eight of the states that would benefit from I-69 attended that day.

    By Scott Williams February 25, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Here’s what would happen if COVID-19 entered a city

    While for many, COVID-19 infection would be mild or moderate, no different than the common cold, the greatest impact will be felt by the elderly.

    By Manoj Jain February 25, 2020
  • Opinion

    Not a fan of debates? Watch the Super Tuesday show anyway

    Some critics argue that debates between candidates are shallow and superficial. To which I say: Compared to what? When else do we get to see them side by side, without their handlers?

    By Michael Nelson February 25, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    County mayor wisely paused plans to build a new juvenile center

    The impatience to build a new facility from scratch caught the attention of the company holding title to an existing, unoccupied facility. Now instead of an $11 million annual lease agreement, the county could acquire the building and property for just a fraction of the original expense – $3.4 million.

    By Mick Wright February 21, 2020
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Wolfschmidt and a lifetime

    My second date with Nora Ballenger was a college rush party in 1967 at the top of the King Cotton Hotel, where the Raymond James/TBD building stands today. Accompanying us was a bottle of Wolfschmidt Vodka. Nora drank Tab. I drank the Wolfschmidt. All of it.

    By Dan Conaway February 21, 2020
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Tennessee has a man problem in politics, public policy

    Far too many of this state’s political leaders have a paternalistic and chauvinistic attitude toward women. And what’s worse, these guys just don’t care how it looks.

    By Otis Sanford February 20, 2020
  • Health Care

    Epidemiologist: Why I fear the coronavirus COVID-19

    COVID-19 is both highly infectious and mildly to moderately lethal, similar to the 1918 influenza pandemic that infected nearly a quarter of the world population.

    By Manoj Jain February 19, 2020
  • Opinion

    Nelson: ‘Music Through the Night’ host is a proud Memphian

    McQueen’s particular stamp on the program has been to include selections by “living, breathing” composers of color and women composers. He incorporates recordings by Memphis artists such as Lecolian Washington and guitarist Lily Afshar.

    By Michael Nelson February 18, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    You can have a voice in future of Midtown

    There’s a small case about a Valvoline station before the city’s Board of Adjustment that represents a very big decision about how Midtown’s landscape will evolve.

    By Robert Gordon February 18, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Unmasking racism, every day of the year

    Listen to the prophets Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and today’s prophets, like William Barber II and Bryan Stevenson. Don’t simply say “I am not a racist,” but “I know I’ve got to do more.”

    By Steve Montgomery February 16, 2020
  • Opinion

    The juvenile detention center needs to be replaced

    The question ultimately is not whether we can afford a new facility but whether we can afford not to have one.

    By Bill Powell February 15, 2020

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