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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

“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.” 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.