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    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
  • Metro

    Herrington: A return to part-time teaching and other adjustments to a national failure

    We’ve had more time to prepare for remote learning than we had in the spring. But there are complications that our spring pause did not present: new teachers for most, new schools for many, and a first school experience for some. 

    By Chris Herrington July 23, 2020
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    Herrington: Getting kids back into school is a problem to solve, and goal to pursue, together

    Nothing this week has been more distressing than to glimpse the sprouting seeds of a familiar political battle, this time over school openings. It was awful enough to see mask usage amid a pandemic turned into a test of political fidelity. Please, not this time.

    By Chris Herrington July 08, 2020
  • Opinion

    Opinion: On a record COVID case day, a unified, if subtle message: Don’t have too festive a Fourth

    Several takeaways from Thursday's COVID briefing and the rise in cases. Among them: We're not as bad off as Florida, but we're bad enough that local and CDC officials are alarmed.

    By Chris Herrington July 02, 2020
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    If masks are answer, apathy may be bigger problem than defiance

    The good news about the Memphis mask ordinance so far: People aren't really freaking out about it. The bad news: Too many seem to be simply ignoring it.

    By Chris Herrington June 29, 2020
  • HERRINGTON Opinion

    Quick takes on rising COVID cases, police residency, the demise of ‘Bluff City Law’ and more

    Our rising coronavirus rates pre-date the protests – they correspond to our general loosening of restrictions and specifically to Memorial Day – and there’s no specific tracing evidence at the moment that ties cases to them. 

    By Chris Herrington June 22, 2020
  • Herrington Opinion

    The call for police reform is coming from inside – and outside – the house

    When people ask why protests in Memphis have been so different than in most other cities, they’re fishing for a compliment. But there’s one aspect that is never mentioned: They have been smaller than in most other cities. 

    By Chris Herrington June 08, 2020
  • Herrington Spirit of Memphis

    Doing the right thing is complicated, as protest and pandemic collide

    The public protests of the past week would seem to violate current health directives against mass gatherings of 50 or more. Given the cause for the gatherings, it would be a mistake for officials to use that as a pretext for breaking them up. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t worry about them.

    By Chris Herrington June 09, 2020
  • Herrington Opinion

    Notes from a sixth night of protest in Memphis

    If there’s a commonality among many who disagree about protest tactics as well as those who by profession are on the other side of a line, maybe it’s a care for the city. Defensive pride in place is a Memphis throughline, and it may be serving us here. 

    By Chris Herrington June 02, 2020
  • Herrington Opinion

    Memphis’ largely peaceful protests warrant praise and relief, but also action

    Protesters distributed a list of “suggested demands” at a weekend rally. Some are easier to achieve than others given the coronavirus-spiked budgeting chaos. All, perhaps, are debatable. But it would do the city great good for the current moment to become a more actionable one.

    By Chris Herrington June 01, 2020
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    The most painful chord in American memory: We all just watched two lynchings

    So, yes, I do not care about whether a college basketball player stands up for an anthem. To complain about such a thing in this moment seems to me pointless, trivial, a kind of profanity.

    By Chris Herrington May 29, 2020
  • Subscribers only Opinion

    Herrington: Our coronavirus situation is stable, but we still have choices to make

    When the Memphis/Shelby County Joint COVID Task Force moved from daily to twice-weekly briefings this week, I saw it as a sign that living with the virus, and accepting that you’re living with it, means not being gripped by a crisis report day after day after day. 

     

    By Chris Herrington May 27, 2020
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    Herrington: Tom Lee Park is on the right path, but questions remain

    The general footprint of the plan to renovate the park – three “stages” with separation and a smaller covered venue – mimics the footprint of Memphis in May's Beale Street Music Fest, but in a way that would make a good park even without it. 

    By Chris Herrington May 22, 2020
  • Opinion

    Herrington: Government mask ordinances risk doing more harm than good

    The elevation of mask-usage into a kind of political symbol is a drag — it’s flat-out dumb — but it’s happened, and I’d worry that a government requirement, even a loosely enforced one, would increase the political strife around the issue without a commensurate increase in compliance.

    By Chris Herrington May 18, 2020
  • Herrington Spirit of Memphis

    Journalism helps you know your community

    It’s hard to imagine many places of Memphis’ size with history and culture so rich and a sense of place so profound.

    By Chris Herrington May 18, 2020
  • Metro

    Herrington: Thoughts on ‘Phase 2’ and the great mask debate

    The operational difference between “Phase 1” and “Phase 2” was always fairly narrow and has grown more so via “phase creep.”

    By Chris Herrington May 14, 2020
  • Opinion

    Herrington: Forrest saga on path to surprisingly amicable end

    The Forrest statue made the park unusable space for most Memphians. The Sons of Confederate Veterans lost the battle for the hearts and minds of Memphis, thank goodness, long before they lost the legal battle over moving the monuments to Forrest and Jefferson Davis. 

    By Chris Herrington May 14, 2020
  • Metro

    Herrington: The Memphis Zoo takes a cautious step forward with reopening

    Before the pandemic, the Memphis Zoo was a choose-your-own-adventure endeavor, but for the time being, visitors will be guided in one direction around the exhibits. “If you’re just here to see the giraffes it’s going to take you awhile, because you’re going to have to walk the walk,” says zoo CEO Jim Dean.

    By Chris Herrington May 12, 2020
  • Herrington Metro

    Acquiring masks has been too much of a community adventure

    The diversity of masks and their origins would be charming if it wasn’t yet another sign of official dysfunction in our collective approach to controlling a pandemic. 

    By Chris Herrington May 06, 2020
  • Opinion Metro

    Herrington: Reopening? We’ll wait and see

    The city and county can loosen restrictions, but a tour of Midtown and Downtown neighborhoods shows businesses and potential customers still have decisions to make. 

    By Chris Herrington May 04, 2020
  • OPINION Metro

    Herrington: When will Memphis reopen? Memphis never closed

    The past month has meant navigating a matrix of official restrictions and individual decisions, and so will the many months — maybe years — to come. 

    By Chris Herrington April 29, 2020
  • Opinion Metro

    Herrington: First thoughts on Shelby County’s ‘back-to-business’ framework

    Shelby County's path through coronavirus is a faucet not a switch: We'll gradually loosen the local economy, but will be prepared to restrict the flow of activity again if and when the virus spikes. 

    By Chris Herrington April 27, 2020
  • Metro

    Herrington: When it comes to coronavirus in Memphis, ‘Tennessee’ only means so much

    A constant factor of Memphis life seems more pressing now than usual: To paraphrase Texas songwriter Joe Ely, we may walk the streets of Memphis, but we’ll have you understand, Tennessee is not entirely the state we’re in.

    By Chris Herrington April 24, 2020
  • Subscribers only Arts & Culture

    The Essential Memphis Library: Otis Redding’s ‘Otis Blue’

    From Sam Cooke to Motown, blues to the British Invasion to his own classic songwriting, Otis Redding’s groundbreaking 1965 album turned everything it touched into one man’s soulful sound. 

    By Chris Herrington April 23, 2020
  • Opinion Metro

    Herrington: Lee’s decision is no green light; now we all live in the flashing yellow

    Impatience was always going to be part of this matrix: There’s a natural urge to get past bad situations without fully dealing with them. But a governmental failure has fed this impatience, and it didn’t come from Nashville.

    By Chris Herrington April 21, 2020

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