The development of a local funding stream through the Memphis Affordable Housing Trust Fund would create the only flexible, permanent and dedicated fiscal resource for nonprofit developers in the city.

Every eligible restaurant should seize the opportunity of the Restaurant Revitalization Fund while it lasts. The only downsides are having to fill out an application and track the used funds.

More than 95% of doctors have gotten vaccines, according to one survey. Do you think we would immediately have taken those shots when offered if we were concerned about their safety?

Neighborhoods are the places where life happens, and since the outbreak of COVID-19, they are increasingly where work happens for many of us. Does your neighborhood have everything you need? 

“The qualified immunity privilege serves as a cloak of protection reminiscent of Jim Crow laws and as a vestige of racism that perpetuates unequal treatment before the law. It is both bad law and bad public policy.”

If the goal of more frequent reappraisals is not a bigger pot of tax revenue, what are we trying to accomplish? Is anyone clamoring to have the county government poke into their property value more often?

‘I now understand the science of groundwater aquifers and the complex of laws and regulations that keep an aquifer healthy,’ says geologist Deborah Baker Carington. ‘I also understand the very real risks an oil pipeline spill would pose to the region’s most precious resource, the Memphis aquifer.’

Lynne Turley taught music in the Memphis City Schools for 22 years. She believed that every child was musical.

At WYXR, a cast of musicians with global name recognition see the station as a vehicle to express a fascination with not only Memphis’ music, but Memphis’ people. 

It was 1947 when junior golfers were invited to the Ritz Theater at the corner of Poplar and Evergreen for a movie introduction to the game. A couple of hours later, after a short walk or bus ride to Overton Park Golf Course, we gathered at the practice area behind No. 1 green.

With April recognized as Financial Literacy Month, now is the time to elevate its importance and prepare young people for their financial futures. This is not a monthlong effort. It’s a lifelong effort.

The “School to Prison Bill” prioritizes punishment over care for vulnerable and disadvantaged students.

Nigerian letter scams now reap only $700,000 annually, but the same crooks get billions of dollars from more sophisticated scams: ‘That Nigerian prince has grown up, has gone to college, and has found a new, lucrative career,’ says an expert.

In the past year I have taken over 1,900 calls to 911, and I’m convinced that a refresher course is in order for children and adults alike. Here are some tips to help you become an effective 911 caller.

At various times throughout our history, all levels of government have mandated vaccines and not once have we drifted down that slippery slope towards tyranny.

The children at Perea are taught that if they come across a gun, they are to “Stop, don’t touch, turn around, tell an adult.” The sad fact is that many of them can already tell the teacher exactly where the guns in their houses are hidden.

This pandemic has at times warranted the federal and state government assuming emergency powers. Those powers should have been limited in scope and rescinded as quickly as possible.

There is never a day a child can’t be made to smile with a small doll after a visit to the doctor at Church Health that may have seemed scary. 

‘Commemorations with little or no consideration for King as preacher, make me wonder how many King admirers are unaware of the transcendent religious experience that was his defining moment.’

“I believe that if Dr. King had not come to Memphis, my father and his co-workers would have been forced to continue to work under the same terrible conditions that led to the senseless deaths of sanitation workers Robert Walker and Echol Cole.”

Phyllis Phillips was a great boss and co-worker, but her real superpower was her network of connections across the city, which she would tap fearlessly to get as many clients as possible the help they needed.

‘All told, Shelby County has lost over 1,500 lives,’ Mayor Lee Harris writes. ‘That’s more than the number of soldiers from Shelby County lost during the Vietnam War, Korean War and World War II, combined.’