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  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Two cities, one beat

    “Memphis has always been racially-fractured, and I don’t know where we’d be without the greatest duct tape and Gorilla Glue in the world ... music.” 

    By Dan Conaway February 19, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    February playlist: Valentine’s Day edition

    It was a cosmic certainty that the one for me would be a music lover, too, but you already know the argument I’m here to make: Memphis music is the perfect soundtrack for falling in love, no matter who you are.

    By Elizabeth Cawein February 13, 2020
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Put the police residency requirement to a vote

    The unspoken sentiment behind objections to relaxing residency rules appears to be the prospect that white officers from small towns in North Mississippi, West Tennessee and Eastern Arkansas would be policing unfamiliar territory in North Memphis, South Memphis and Orange Mound.

    By Otis Sanford February 13, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    One issue brings Tennessee voters together

    A survey by Tennesseans for Quality Early Education shows Tennessee voters are unified in their dissatisfaction with the state’s public education system and united in their support for expanding early education. 

    By Mike Carpenter February 12, 2020
  • Opinion

    Nelson: The conservative case for moving Forrest’s bust

    His defenders hail Nathan Bedford Forrest's 'great commander' status. But at Fort Pillow, Forrest gained temporary possession of a meaningless fort while making things worse for the Confederate military effort everywhere.

    By Michael Nelson February 11, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Shelby County needs to treat kids in detention like kids

    Research has repeatedly determined that when we treat kids like kids, public safety outcomes improve. If the Shelby County Sheriff, DA and judges want to combat serious crimes, they need to stop investing in failed “get tough” strategies for youthful offenders.

    By Marcy Mistrett February 10, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Crosstown High was a cause with a champion

    Ginger Spickler saw a billboard for a foundation that was giving away $10 million to five teams who could prove they were ready to “reinvent high school.” She thought: “Memphis could really use this.”

    By Marvin Stockwell February 09, 2020
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: The mean in Tennessee is mean

    It’s just flat mean of the Tennessee Legislature to continue to deny even basic health insurance to some 300,000 working Tennesseans just to make a political point.

    By Dan Conaway February 07, 2020
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Lamar Alexander needed courage – and an editor

    Instead of the word salad that came from Tennessee’s senior Republican senator late on the evening of Jan. 30, all we really needed was a single sentence.

    By Otis Sanford February 06, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Kelsey amendment aims blow at Dr. King’s work in Memphis

    When laws unfairly give companies the upper hand in negotiations with labor unions, all workers suffer the consequences.

    By Raumesh Akbari, Sara Kyle, Katrina Robinson February 05, 2020
  • Premium Opinion

    Nelson: Super Bowl LIV is over. Get ready for Super Tuesday IX.

    One of the most prominent shakers and movers in the effort to create Super Tuesday in 1988 was then-Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter. 

    By Michael Nelson February 04, 2020
  • Opinion

    ‘Do I have coronavirus or the flu?’ The answer is simple

    While we cannot stop the entry of the flu virus into the general population, we can do a great deal to stop the entry and spread of the coronavirus.

    By Manoj Jain February 03, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Indigence among us

    Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa February 03, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Hispanic poverty rate in Memphis dropping rapidly

    The 2019 numbers in the Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet showed an increase in the poverty rate for almost every group in Memphis, except for Hispanics.

    By Elena Delavega, Gregory Miles Blumenthal February 03, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    U of M Engineering needs new space

    To address the space deficit to meet the needs of students and faculty, the U of M submitted a proposal for state funding for a new STEM building in the next budget cycle, which will be decided upon this month.

    By Kevin Vaughan February 02, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Morris: Memphis, meet a new fellow citizen

    At 25, Andrea left Venezuela and moved to Memphis, where her uncle is a mechanical engineer. She applied to work as a waitress, in retail and in day care, and each place told her she was over-qualified. Finally, in 2015, she took a job at Church Health.

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

    Smith, Luttrell, Belz support Methodist purchase of Saint Francis hospitals

    The CEO of FedEx Corp., the chairman of Belz Enterprises and a former Shelby County sheriff and mayor weigh in on the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare plan to take over the two Saint Francis hospitals in the area. 

    By Frederick W. Smith, Mark Luttrell, Jack A. Belz February 01, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Parks Alliance tells cities to ‘look to Memphis as a model’

    'One size does not fit all. But you, Memphis, are a testament to how parks can function as true civic spaces.'

    By Catherine Nagel January 31, 2020
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Starring Booker T. Jones, Marsha Blackburn, Tony Allen and others

    Stax greats Booker T. and Carla Thomas on stage together. Grizz great Tony Allen back at the Grindhouse. "Bluff City Law" in limbo but keeping hope alive. Plus, seven more observations on the month in Memphis. 

    By Chris Herrington January 31, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Conaway: An architect gives Memphis shape, from AutoZone Park to FedExForum

    You may not think you know Rob Norcross, but you do. He was the architect for the most acclaimed minor league ballpark in the country, and for the home of grit and grind.

    By Dan Conaway February 03, 2020
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Memphis politicos pick their presidential candidates

    State legislators and the Memphis and Shelby County mayors are among elected officials who have endorsed a presidential candidate and plan to campaign for their choice.

    By Otis Sanford January 30, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Is Operation Choke Point returning to Memphis?

    The resurrection of this practice, sometimes referred to as biased banking, will have severe ramifications for Memphis and Tennessee at large.

    By Gus Pribnow January 29, 2020
  • Opinion

    Nelson: DNC superdelegates no longer very super

    New rules governing the Democratic National Convention means Tennessee will have 73 delegates (1.8% of the 3,979 total delegates), and 64 will be pledged to support one candidate or another.

    By Michael Nelson January 28, 2020
  • Elections

    Shelby County needs cheap, secure hand-marked paper ballots

    You can’t hack a flesh-and-blood voter marking his own ballot. 

    By Joe Towns, Marlene Strube January 27, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    2020: Year of the nurse and midwife

    The UTHSC College of Nursing hopes to open a midwifery program by 2021. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists reports 49% of U.S. counties do not have obstetric care providers and predicts that by 2030, there will be a 25% shortage of obstetricians/gynecologists. 

    By Wendy Likes January 26, 2020

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