Calkins: After a week of horror, should we still Choose 901?
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland gives an angry statement during the midnight press conference about the shooting spree on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
It is the most serious crisis facing the city in decades. What are Memphians to do?
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