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    Why we need Memphis 3.0

    A plan does not gentrify neighborhoods and displace existing residents. In fact, it seeks to provide the framework to avoid exactly that happening and to guide and coordinate investment so that it has broad-based benefit.

    By George Abbott April 10, 2019
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    How the election of 1968 changed us

    The presidential campaign of 1968 was a last hurrah for the “Old Politics,” in which political machines and party leaders determined the major nominees. It also highlighted a “New Politics,” in which candidates took their cases to the people, through party primaries and modern technology.

    By Aram Goudsouzian April 08, 2019
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    Why do I volunteer? A St. Jude runner explains

    'I volunteer and run for those who want to but say they can't, and for those who can't but wish they could.'

    By Almetria Turner April 07, 2019
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    Midtown needs better development guidelines

    Consider the difference between a planned community such as Seaside, Florida, and an overdone Disney sequel. We can simply look to our neighbors in Nashville to see what an overdone sequel looks like in an urban environment.

    By Kevin Thompson April 07, 2019
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    She turned the name ‘Fuss’ into a business asset

    When her husband was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, a woman who started her own business dropped everything to care for him and their three young daughters. Ten years later, the entrepreneurial spirit returned.

    By Jennifer Pierotti Dunavant April 06, 2019
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    Memphis 51 years later: We are not there yet

    The Rev. James Lawson, who invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis 51 years ago, will speak at Memphis Cares 2 on April 7 at Crump Stadium. The event recalls the first Memphis Cares, held three days after King's assassination.

    By Mark Stansbury April 03, 2019
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    Memphis Shelby Crime Commission: ‘It’s not your typical nonprofit’

    Every three months or so, 50 people who comprise the MSCC board of directors file into a room for their quarterly meeting. They include law enforcement and criminal justice leaders as well as people from business, faith, nonprofit and grassroots sectors.

    By Ben Adams, Johnny B. Moore Jr. April 03, 2019
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    An actor in a kinder, gentler theater

    Playback Memphis was life-giving to this band of 14, who were “voluntold” to participate in what most would deem a crazy idea – bringing police officers together with those who had spent their lives running from them.

    By Virginia Murphy April 01, 2019
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    Immigration: ‘The best problem’

    In Memphis, new immigrants make up just over 5 percent of the metro population, but account for 9 percent of the area's business owners.

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa April 01, 2019
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    Do the WriteThing essay: Hate is not a natural state

    With this entry, McKenzie Leaks was named an ambassador in the national Do the Write Thing Challenge, an anti-violence essay contest. Her essay was one of two chosen from 2,000 submitted by students from 16 schools in the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office Every Day in School program.

    By McKenzie Leaks March 31, 2019
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    Do the Write Thing essay: Violence can turn your life around

    Jared Rawlings' essay was one of two chosen from 2,000 submitted by students from 16 schools in the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office Every Day in School program. He was named an ambassador in the national Do the Write Thing Challenge, an anti-violence essay contest.

    By Jared Rawlings March 31, 2019
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    Racial reconciliation is spiritual, not political

    Bill Russell and Bob Cousy saw each other as brothers, not just athletes. Their relationship reflects a standard our society has yet to attain.

    By Warner Davis March 30, 2019
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    A sanitation worker’s struggle still inspires his son

    In a 1973 interview with Ebony magazine, Memphis sanitation worker John C. White said Dr. Martin Luther King's sacrifice stayed with him: “I've had a better life.”

    By Johnnie Mosley March 28, 2019
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    At Tom Lee Park, look past the anxiety of change

    'I can predict that when the Memphis River Parks Partnership’s work on Tom Lee Park is complete, few will look back and long for the flat field that we experience today.'

    By Laura Morris March 28, 2019
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    Focus on Tennessee priorities, not LGBTQ discrimination

    Discriminatory laws will only set the tone for continued discrimination – up to and including targeted violence. These proposed laws are a distraction from Tennessee priorities like good schools, healthy environments and safe communities.

    By Shahin A. Samiei March 27, 2019
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    Legislators in Early Education Caucus address ‘crisis’ in student performance

    Motivated by the fact that the majority of Tennessee’s third-grade students can’t read or do math on grade level, a bipartisan group of legislators has committed to exploring policy improvements for students prior to third grade.

    By Kemp Conrad, Kenneth S. Robinson March 26, 2019
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    A ‘hard-headed woman’ committed to inclusion

    'I’m pretty certain it was that Memphis grit and grind that I wasn’t always so comfortable with that helped me earn a license as a locomotive conductor at nearly 40 years old.'

    By Roquita Coleman-Williams March 24, 2019
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    Memphis music for March: the Spring Sprang Sprung playlist

    Here are 20 songs from the Memphis music catalog that will improve your commute one day this week.

    By Elizabeth Cawein March 23, 2019
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    Waters: For Kilzer, triumph and tragedy were all there in the music

    John will be lamented and loved as a survivor and casualty of addiction, a saint and sinner, a gentle and tormented soul whose life and death, head and heart, darkness and light were a parable, a revelation, a psalm.

    By David Waters March 21, 2019
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    Reflections on the death of John Kilzer

    'Ministers and those in other healing professions are called to use their own woundedness in the healing of others. At times, such openness can become an occupational hazard – becoming overwhelmed by the exposure to such pain.'

    By Mark Winborn March 20, 2019
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    For John Kilzer’s mourners: Remember ‘shared sorrow is half sorrow’

    Addiction is an illness. Mental health conditions are illnesses. No judgment, shame or feelings of guilt are needed from us; only love, support and treatment.

    By Donna DiClementi March 20, 2019
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    Remembering John Kilzer: ‘The theme of his songs was always love’

    Every Friday at The Way, John Kilzer would greet those who were new to recovery, who were afraid and alone, with these words: “We are going to love you, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it.”

    By G. Scott Morris March 20, 2019
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    A heartbroken child meets salvation in a classroom

    'I don’t know where Rashad is. I don’t have a heaven or a hell to put him in. But I believe that he experienced heaven on earth in my classroom.'

    By Sherwanda Y. Chism March 20, 2019
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    Nelson: There’s still time for Tennessee to hit pause on medical marijuana

    Because the legalization movement has made marijuana sound healthy, more people are using it. Daily intake nearly tripled from about 3 million users in 2005 to more than 8 million in 2017. 

    By Michael Nelson March 15, 2019
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    Let’s strengthen public ‘school choice’ in Tennessee

    Instead of trying a new, unproven program with dubious accountability to the taxpayers who are funding it, why don’t we double down on the initiatives that are already working across the state?

    By Michael Whaley March 15, 2019

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