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    Opinion: How to choose a tax preparer

    You’re entrusting a tax preparer with sensitive information, so it’s important to do your due diligence in choosing one.

    By Randy Hutchinson January 12, 2021
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    Opinion: Resolutions to help us face ‘the real work of life’

    Scott Morris: “The year of COVID-19 taught me that there might not be time for all the fanciful dreams we put on hold.”

    By G. Scott Morris January 03, 2021
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    Opinion: Apply Kris Kringle’s advice to end-of-year giving

    Perhaps one lesson from 2020 is that helping other people requires thoughtful consideration for what someone else actually needs and wants. It’s a deeper kind of call and response, and it might require breaking established habits.

    By Jennifer Balink December 27, 2020
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    December playlist: Music for the definitely-not-normal holidays

    We can pledge not to go “back to normal.” Normal, in the best of times, found us donating to GoFundMe campaigns to cover emergency medical bills of folks in our music community. Normal was $100 a gig for musicians. Normal is the system that’s broken.

    By Elizabeth Cawein December 25, 2020
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    Opinion: A tale of two economies

    With the continuance of the COVID crisis, the intangible economy has come to pretty much a grinding halt. There is little or nothing to offer the world because group experiences are on hold. You see it with football, basketball, concerts and movies.

    By Jimmy Tashie December 16, 2020
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    Opinion: How to protect your child’s eyes during virtual learning

    Virtual learning does not mean that our kids have to be in front of a screen all day. Work with your teachers to try to have arts and crafts, distance activities, exercise, and, yes, breaks to go outside.

    By Carl Flinn December 16, 2020
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    Opinion: Youth arts education is imperative

    Stax Music Academy fostered small group sessions to help students cope with the stress of living in the time of a global pandemic.

    By Pat Mitchell-Worley December 12, 2020
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    Opinion: COVID fatigue is real; how do we cope?

    “We can seize this opportunity to become more whole, more grounded than we used to be.”

    By Jesse Malott December 12, 2020
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    Sanford: As Republican leaders fiddle, democracy hangs in the balance

    Trump’s inexplicable refusal to accept the outcome of a fair election, combined with the shameful complicity from elected Republican leaders, is driving our country to the brink of chaos.

    By Otis Sanford December 10, 2020
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    Opinion: In a time of pandemic and racial reckoning, we need art

    Whether it’s for psychological refuge, racial healing, creative expression or illumination of those in the shadows, it’s undeniable that we need the arts in our lives.

    By Rodney Sanders December 09, 2020
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    Opinion: A premature birth, a baptism and a prayer

    Julia will not remember her long days in the ICU, nor our experience this year of COVID-19, nor even the beauty of her baptism. But all who love her will.

    By G. Scott Morris December 06, 2020
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    Opinion: Arts Week celebrates the ‘aha!’ moments that change our lives

    To celebrate the work artists and arts organizations have created in 2020 despite the pandemic, ArtsMemphis is introducing Arts Week Dec. 7-13. ArtsMemphis provides grants to 70 arts organization, and this year supplied emergency funds to individual artists.

    By Mia Henley December 06, 2020
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    Opinion: Help for the holidays

    So many of us are feeling raw and on edge, more so than usual. Now, more than ever, talking to a professional counselor might be life-changing.

    By Jennifer Balink November 26, 2020
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    Opinion: Beacon Center research shows ESAs would benefit Memphis, Nashville school districts

    ‘The cries that the ESA program will gut classroom funding and leave the most vulnerable students with fewer resources is antithetical to both the purpose and benefits of the ESA program.’

    By Jason Edmonds November 25, 2020
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    Opinion: How to spot fake news

    Kids don’t read as much as their parents did, and when you don’t read much you don’t know much. That makes you more susceptible to fakery, lies, and conspiracies. 

    By Joe Hayden November 21, 2020
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    Opinion: Conservative commissioner says we can ‘Live divided, together’

    I’m a Republican serving with a Democratic majority, in a blue county of a red state. Shelby County government may not be the perfect model of comity, but the nation could take courage from how well we get along.

    By Mick Wright November 20, 2020
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    Opinion: Gun violence is a public health issue

    “The Shelby County Health Department is participating in the Unity Walk Against Gun Violence on Nov. 14, 2020. As public health director, I will be joining the walk to demonstrate my personal commitment to working with others to address the gun violence epidemic in our community.”

    By Alisa Haushalter November 06, 2020
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    Opinion: What it means to be an American

    We will elect a president, but the fundamental nature of being an American does not depend on a single individual; it depends on our collective nature and the principles we practice.

    By G. Scott Morris November 01, 2020
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    Opinion: My car was totaled. Then my world got bigger

    Before this experience, I never thought I would get around the city exclusively by bike or seriously take bicycle infrastructure into consideration when considering where I live. But now, it is hard to imagine a future without it.

    By Charles Layne October 31, 2020
  • Music

    October Playlist: ‘Straight from the Source’

    Elizabeth Cawein’s lifelong love affair with radio informs her new WYXR show, “Straight from the Source,” and the October Playlist.

    By Elizabeth Cawein October 30, 2020
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    Opinion: Why our schools need to reopen

    White children are two times more likely than Black and Hispanic children to have the option of going to school in person. Shouldn’t we be more troubled by this social injustice?

    By David Hill October 29, 2020
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    Opinion: On a mission to register voters

    Fast forward to 2020, where we are in the midst of a global pandemic and U.S. presidential election that could change the trajectory for future generations.

    By Gloria J. Sangster-Fort October 07, 2020
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    Opinion: Let’s expand children’s educational horizons, not limit them

    “Phasing out the heroes, myths and legends as they pertain to America’s unique story is damaging to our shared cultural identity, our mosaic of greatness.”

    By Robert Lee Long October 06, 2020
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    Opinion: How can you help? Pay attention, listen, vote

    “As a white woman in the remaining months of her thirties, I may not be the demographic that typically fits the bill to talk about allyship but ...Black and Brown Americans are tired, and frankly it’s not their responsibility to make white people better humans.” 

    By Ashleigh Nelson October 06, 2020
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    Opinion: Teen offenders need immediate intervention

    To determine root causes for juvenile criminal behavior and map out more positive life plans, Shelby County needs a facility independent from Juvenile Court to provide immediate and evidence-based intervention for every youth who comes in contact with law enforcement. 

    By Amy Weirich October 05, 2020

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