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    Calkins: Ready or not, Memphis, it’s time to start reopening. So let’s not screw it up

    Memphis and Shelby County will start reopening for business Monday. It's up to Memphians to make sure it's not the disaster many expect. 

    By Geoff Calkins May 04, 2020
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    Calkins: A dog, his owner — and one wild & crazy parade

    You've seen the parades all over town, haven't you? For birthdays and elementary schools and the like? Well, they had one at Trezevant Manor Thursday. It was the happiest parade of them all. 

    By Geoff Calkins May 01, 2020
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    Calkins: Today’s superhero? A nurse — and father of 7 — who flies to New York to fight coronavirus

    Todd Maxwell is a nurse from Byhalia, Mississippi. When the pandemic hit New York, he left his job in Jackson, Tennessee, to fly up and work in a hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients.

    By Geoff Calkins April 30, 2020
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    Calkins: A rational, bipartisan plan to reopen Memphis and Shelby County? Why are some of you mad?

    Area mayors outlined a "Back-to-business" framework Monday. The framework did not include a definite starting date — and that's a good thing.

     

    By Geoff Calkins April 28, 2020
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    Calkins: Coronavirus canceled his first marathon. So he ran it anyway. Alone.

    Nate Franklin trained to run his first marathon on his 26th birthday. When it was postponed by COVID-19, he decided to run it anyway. It's a lesson for us all. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 26, 2020
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    Calkins: Landers Nolley is the good news that Memphis Tiger fans need

    Virginia Tech transfer Landers Nolley is headed to Memphis. That's great news for a program that has been in need of some. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 20, 2020
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    Calkins: A bittersweet day as Tyler Harris decides to leave the city he loves

    Tyler Harris has decided to transfer. With the expected arrival of Virginia Tech transfer Landers Nolley, it makes all the sense in the world. But Memphis fans should be forever grateful to Harris for reaffirming the connection between the Tigers and the town.

    By Geoff Calkins April 20, 2020
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    Calkins: For Rev. Eli Morris and Hope Church, getting COVID-19 may have been an answered prayer

    Eli Morris is feeling better after testing positive for COVID-19. Now he and the rest of the clergy at Hope Church are focusing on those in the community who are facing the same challenges he faced — usually with fewer resources.

    By Geoff Calkins April 17, 2020
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    Calkins: Why does this keep happening to Memphis basketball?

    Jalen Green skips college for the G League. It's the latest disappointment for Penny Hardaway and Memphis basketball.

    By Geoff Calkins April 17, 2020
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    Calkins: University of Memphis president David Rudd optimistic there will be students — and football — on campus this fall

    University of Memphis president David Rudd told The Daily Memphian that "current indicators would suggest" students will be back on campus in the fall. He's hopeful football will be back, too. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 15, 2020
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    Calkins: Super agent Jimmy Sexton is still doing deals — from his back porch

    Jimmy Sexton and agents at CAA just negotiated contracts for 43 NFL players worth a total $611.5 million. How do you do that in the midst of pandemic? Well, you start by never leaving your home. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 15, 2020
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    Calkins: How a 62-year-old Marine named Sgt. Tony is winning Facebook Live

    Tony Ludlow started his wise-cracking boot camp more than 20 years ago. Now he's beaming it out on Facebook Live. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 14, 2020
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    Calkins: My teenage son cut my hair and . . .

    Memphians are getting shaggier as part of life under coronavirus isolation. So, our columnist ventured into Calkins Clip Club for a trim by a teenager with a pair of shears.

    By Geoff Calkins April 08, 2020
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    Calkins: No, there won’t be football

    Dr. Jon McCullers loves sports as much as you do. But he has some bad news. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 06, 2020
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    Calkins: What happens when a St. Jude kid plays golf in the pandemic

    Dakota Cunningham is the St. Jude patient who sank a 5-foot putt for $50,000 at the World Golf Championship-FedEx St. Jude Invitational last summer. This past Thursday, he did better than that. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 06, 2020
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    Calkins: Dan Spector was Shelby County’s death number 3 — and a whole lot more

    Dan Spector died Tuesday of COVID-19. He loved the Tigers, Judaism, politics, Midtown, newspapers, the arts — and a brilliant white flower that bloomed just one night a year.

    By Geoff Calkins April 01, 2020
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    Calkins: My friend tested positive for COVID-19 — but she went all over Memphis first

    You want to know why you should take social distancing seriously? Meet a nurse I know. She lives in Memphis. She tested positive for COVID-19. And y'all just might have crossed paths before the test results came back. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 31, 2020
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    Calkins: Even in a pandemic, the high school lunch table endures

    There's no lunch table with classes canceled, unless a group of friends gather via technology to debate sports, dating and the winner of a fight between a gorilla and a bear.

    By Geoff Calkins March 30, 2020
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    Calkins: In a time of pandemic, can construction paper save us all?

    Across-the-street neighbors Melinda Henson and Laura Allen realized they weren't seeing as much of each other as they should. So they took it upon themselves to connect as only two elementary school teachers could. In the process, they taught a lesson to us all.

    By Geoff Calkins March 28, 2020
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    Calkins: Help us ‘crazy’ Memphians save local journalism

    Memphians are just audacious enough to think they can can find solutions. That’s what defines us as much as anything else. We roll up our sleeves. We innovate. And at a time when the model for local journalism is broken — but the need for local journalism is as keen as ever — Memphians have come up with a solution to that. But it needs you.

     

    By Geoff Calkins March 25, 2020
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    Calkins: Yes, it’s true! They had a (very happy) coronavirus parade!

    The teachers at Bailey Station Elementary missed their students. So they threw a giant (no joking) coronavirus parade!

    By Geoff Calkins March 25, 2020
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    Calkins: The class of 2020, and a lost senior spring

    The Class of 2020 will not have the senior spring that the rest of us had. It may shape them in important and lasting ways. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 26, 2020
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    Calkins: The Bread Emergency (from the inside)

    Scotty Oates, 29, understands the 'hell' of living inside the coronavirus crisis. No, Oates is not a doctor. He's a bread man. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 22, 2020
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    Calkins: Taylor Berger shutters Railgarten and Rec Room — and already misses Memphis spring

    Taylor Berger and his partners made the hard decision to close Railgarten, Rec Room and Highland Axe & Rec. What does that mean for his 100 employees? And what does that mean for the rest of us?

    By Geoff Calkins March 19, 2020
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    Calkins: Thoughts on Memphis — the team and the city — from a director of ‘The Harder Way’

    What quintessentially teenager thing happened to Tyler Harris this year? What is Precious Achiuwa really like? Henry Proegler, one of the directors of "The Harder Way," weighs in on this and more. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 17, 2020

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