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    Opinion: Memphians are sick and tired of excuses about crime

    The case for building a bigger local jail, adding more judges and courtrooms, and changing how bail is handled.

    By Shep Fargotstein January 05, 2023
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    Garner: Making healthy changes for the new year and beyond

    “Armed with a bit of knowledge, you can change little things to help out your future.”

    By Kristina Garner January 01, 2023
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    Morris: Let’s resolve to be kind in New Year

    “Our resolve is not to get ahead of ourselves, beyond the moment we are currently living in. We resolve to be in each moment fully and bring our kindest, most generous self to that situation.”

    By G. Scott Morris January 01, 2023
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    Hutchinson: Buy contact lenses from sellers who verify prescriptions

    The FTC’s Contact Lens Rule requires prescribers to provide copies of prescriptions automatically — that is, the patient shouldn’t have to ask for it — and at no extra charge.

    By Randy Hutchinson December 31, 2022
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    Opinion: MLGW must communicate better

    “Infrastructure issues in Memphis are a big, expensive problem. However, even though it’s just a band-aid, developing a more effective communication system is a small step that MLGW can take to ensure customers are informed and safe.”

    By Sarah Hunter Simanson December 29, 2022
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    Guest Column: A new approach to combat blighted, vacant lots

    “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.”

    By Theo Davies December 23, 2022
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    Opinion: BlueCross BlueShield Tennessee strong-arms frontline doctors

    “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.”

    By Marilyn McLeod December 20, 2022
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    Guest Column: Memories of Stax, the late Jim Stewart and Isaac Hayes’ powder blue Caddy

    “Stax history is about the music but also about the integration and racial healing in Memphis and the nation.”

    By H. Scott Prosterman December 10, 2022
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    Garner: Germantown got an excellent deal on the 3Gs

    “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.”

    By Kristina Garner December 08, 2022
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    Echols: Ja Morant’s game hints at something more. Something sacred.

    “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.”

    By Candace Echols December 10, 2022
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    Hutchinson: Consider a credit freeze after data breach

    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.

    By Randy Hutchinson December 03, 2022
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    Opinion: A ‘new and purely authentic’ idea for the Coliseum

    “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.”

    By Mark Jones December 03, 2022
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    Opinion: Some conservative women support abortion rights

    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.

    By Kristina Garner December 02, 2022
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    Opinion: Why recycling could mean a cleaner Tennessee

    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.

    By Mike Butler December 01, 2022
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    Echols: A Christmas column that isn’t tinsel and twinkles

    “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.”

    By Candace Echols December 03, 2022
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    Opinion: Independent study could reopen MLGW/TVA debate

    “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.”

    By Karl Schledwitz April 16, 2023
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    Echols: Thanksgiving traditions for the modern family

    “The modern American — me, included — can barely sit through a wheat-harvesting description without checking her phone for something a tad more interesting.”

    By Candace Echols November 21, 2022
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    Guest Column: A first-time voter reflects on the importance — and the challenges — of voting

    “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.”

    By Anna Calvo November 19, 2022
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    Guest Column: Advice from a poll worker a week after Election Day

    “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.”

    By Robert R. Llewellyn November 17, 2022
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    Opinion: Tackling injustice at the roots

    “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.”

    By Ayanna Watkins November 16, 2022
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    Echols: ‘My Magnificent Lover’

    “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.”

    By Candace Echols November 13, 2022
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    Guest Column: Homeless — but not without hope — in Memphis

    “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.”

    By Robert Donati November 12, 2022
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    Guest column: How a rabbi inspired my role at the National Civil Rights Museum today

    “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.”

    By Russell Wigginton Jr. November 14, 2022
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    Echols: ‘Don’t grow up. It’s a trap.’

    “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.”

    By Candace Echols November 06, 2022
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    Morris: Conversations about health care are increasingly complex

    “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.”

    By G. Scott Morris November 06, 2022

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