“If we adopted a new approach to vacant land, we could actually reduce the amount of work that is required — and money that is spent — by our city as it intervenes and attempts to maintain health and safety at abandoned land.”
“For more than two years, our heroic clinicians have risked their safety while treating patients on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic in communities large and small.”
“Stax history is about the music but also about the integration and racial healing in Memphis and the nation.”
“High hopes” that the county commission and the Shelby County Mayor would build trust were hurt by how the deal was announced. “The chasm seems to have widened through actions like these.”
“Each of us has a particular history, personality, community, set of strengths and weaknesses – and most importantly – heart full of loves. All of these are useful as we sort out how we might fit into Memphis.”
The Identity Theft Resource Center recommends that data breach notices explicitly recommend that victims freeze their credit and that credit reporting agencies create a common system for people to do so.
“Support Chris Reyes and his quest for a two-year lease of 15,000 square feet inside the Coliseum so he can expand and build his incredible interactive playground.”
Conservative Kristina Garner writes about her support of limited government, individual freedoms, the right to bear arms, a strong military, and the importance of state and local rights. But on abortion, she writes that decades of discrimination against women lead her and many other conservatives to disagree with the Republican Party’s position.
The Tennessee CLEAN Act is aimed at bringing together industries, organizations and consumers to put an end to litter in Tennessee by preventing products from becoming litter in the first place.
“Today’s column is about the ways the evil of this world threatens humanity, both through our own choices, and through the spiritual forces in and at work around us. Which is exactly the reason for Christmas.”
“The nationally-recognized firm Enervision, is expected to submit its analysis to City Hall before year-end, a potential game-changer that MLGW will not acknowledge.”
“The modern American — me, included — can barely sit through a wheat-harvesting description without checking her phone for something a tad more interesting.”
“Every vote does indeed count. But election information should be more accessible to everyone, and candidates need to spend time with who they want to represent.”
“We need more citizens preparing themselves to vote by weighing the choices to be made, making informed choices about their votes, and then showing up to vote.”
“It’s time to move past surface-level ‘fixes’ that blame the community for the problems that systems create. We believe that communities, particularly communities of color, deeply and intimately understand the problem and therefore hold the transformative solutions that will last.”
“Real, gut-level laughter is a gift from God; laughter was his design. It’s also a wildly underestimated instrument of light for both children and adults. It has the power to cut through some dark moments, and we need tools that have power like that right now.”
“From one end of the state to the other, we have children sleeping on the floors of government offices. There are more than 9,000 foster children in Tennessee, but less than half as many homes exist to care for them.”
“Seeing history as informing who we are and what we must do in the present no matter what befalls us as a city, nation, and world.”
“It makes sense of a mother’s tears on the first day of kindergarten or at high school graduation. It recognizes a college graduate’s homesickness for her roommates. It validates a father’s emotion as he gives his daughter away on her wedding day.”
“We’ve done something remarkable together here in Memphis for the last 35 years. We’ve been people of faith who have responded to a broken health care system.”
“Girls and women in Tennessee need their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons to step up and vote to end the government’s regulation of women’s bodies.”
“The recent community violence may seem unprecedented and shocking to some in our community. Yet, for many of our Shelby County families, violent crime has long been a part of their daily reality.”
“There’s no person who is completely free of faith. Even atheism requires a hearty and confident step of conviction. And when you find you’re locked in a teeny, tiny closet, even the smallest step matters.”
“C-PACER allows commercial property owners and developers to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings with low-cost financing provided by private lenders, shielding them from rising energy prices in the medium to long term.”
“In the name of individual freedom, these business interest groups wish to create different classes of workers to keep them pitted against each other instead of working in harmony for improved conditions in the workplace.”