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    The Memphis 10: Back to school, early voting, the most Memphis meal and more

    Chris Herrington says he’s worried about kids going back to school, but worried about them not going back to school, and is rooting for SCS to find a safe way to do it. Plus, nine more opinions.

    By Chris Herrington October 22, 2020
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    The Memphis 10: Are early voting lines in Memphis a sign of enthusiasm, or a sign of a problem?

    Historically, I’m an Election Day voter. This year, I’m planning to break precedent. We’re in a pandemic. Everything’s a little unsettled. Well, everything except my personal ballot, which will be short on truly contested races and even shorter on indecision.

    By Chris Herrington October 15, 2020
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    The Memphis 10: Election thoughts from a most American city and more

    It’s a truism that “all politics is local,” but perhaps a current truth is that all politics is exhaustingly national. With less than a month to go before the presidential election, it’s been hard to think about much else this week. So pardon me while I try to get it out of my system, from a Memphis-centric perspective. 

    By Chris Herrington October 08, 2020
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    Artist Christopher Reyes’ ‘BVOE’ is an immersive eruption of creativity, and maybe a preview of coming attractions

    Reyes’ collaborated with more than 20 other Memphis artists to create the astounding “BVOE Quadrant 360” on the edges of Downtown Memphis. The multimedia artist launched and operated the late, lamented “Live From Memphis.”

    By Chris Herrington October 03, 2020
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    The Memphis 10: Best craft beer names, Barrett on the bench and more

    Craft beer naming is an art, or at least an, um, craft, and one that the growing number of Memphis breweries take with proper seriousness. In honor of the Virtual Memphis Beer Festival, we take a spin through local brewery websites to ponder beer names present and past. 

    By Chris Herrington October 01, 2020
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    The Memphis 10: Pandemic has shown football doesn’t just mean more, but maybe too much

    If I’m reading the news correctly, playing high school football in Memphis amid a pandemic hasn’t just disrupted football, which was probably to be expected, but has disrupted school. In Collierville, a football-related outbreak didn’t just halt play. It switched the whole school to virtual learning for two weeks. 

    By Chris Herrington September 17, 2020
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    The Memphis 10: A six-month COVID check-in, a Lucero set wishlist and more

    With no clear national strategy for combating COVID-19, we’ve all sort of been rendered individual contractors in the field of public health.

    By Chris Herrington September 10, 2020
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    The Memphis 10: Levitt Shell cleans up after recent vandalism, eyes 2021 return

    For the Shell, the problem is the medium, not the message. Tagging has been a recurring issue. “When we’re sitting here empty, and it’s dark, I understand that it’s an empty canvas,” said Shell executive director Natalie Wilson.

    By Chris Herrington September 03, 2020
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    The Memphis 10: Collierville Confederate markers another skirmish in struggle over Southern identity

    The effort and cost it takes to pick up the litter left by these ahistorical Lost Cause organizations is a drag. I’m not here to tell Collierville what to do, but those Confederate markers will go away some day.

    By Chris Herrington August 27, 2020
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    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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    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
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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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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

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