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    Council chairman, Commission member urge ‘No’ vote on sales tax referendum

    'A sales tax increase (would) return our pension and healthcare benefits to a plan that only five years ago found Memphis on the precipice of fiscal ruin.'

    By Kemp Conrad, Edmund Ford Jr. September 11, 2019
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    Public Safety Partnership works to reduce violent crime

    Getting out of our respective silos, laying aside our egos, and working together with urgency, our PSP Memphis Team has built up our own capacity to fight crime by using Department of Justice expertise and resources.

    By D. Michael Dunavant September 08, 2019
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    Step outside and experience the evolution in Memphis’ outdoor amenities

    Outdoor assets in Memphis create one of the most impressive networks in our region, adding value to both locals and visitors.

    By Doug Carpenter September 07, 2019
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    Study confirms value of Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K

    With news that nearly two-thirds of Tennessee's public school third graders are not proficient in reading or math, researchers report that the combination of Voluntary Pre-K and quality K-3 is a way to improve academic outcomes. 

    By Mike Carpenter September 06, 2019
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    Waters: A couple say farewell to Memphis after ‘grueling but healing’ work on the Lynching Sites Project

    Randall Mullins and Sharon Pavelda founded a project to identify and memorialize lynching sites in Shelby County, and helped create a community of supporters, from the National Park Service to the local NAACP, preachers and politicians, activists and academics.

    By David Waters May 29, 2019
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    Race relations remain ‘the great unsettled issue’ in Memphis and the nation

    Like the character of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's novels, people are a mix of goodness and baseness. A lack of self-awareness can result in "blithe disregard for genuine grievances."

    By Warner Davis August 28, 2019
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    Goodbye Nashville, Hello Memphis

    Between 2010 and 2015, Memphis was the fourth fastest growing city for millennials. There's no better place in the United States to grow than Memphis, and right now there's no place growing quite like it.

    By Charles Layne August 26, 2019
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    Join the West Tennessee butterfly count as a citizen scientist

    Many of the people who help with butterfly counts are knowledgeable about birds, dragonflies, amphibians and plants. But if you’ve got eyes and can ask, “What’s that?” you can be a valuable participant. The next count is Sept. 7 at Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park. 

    By Bart Jones August 25, 2019
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    Vote to gain political power

    Memphis has seen its own types of gerrymandering and the political opportunism that undergirds those efforts.

    By Earle J. Fisher August 24, 2019
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    A $30M annual investment in MATA would get service to ‘proper levels’

    MATA needs a silver buckshot strategy that incorporates a lot of different innovative approaches – including buses on heavily traveled routes and on-demand transportation in low-density areas.

    By Gary Rosenfeld August 21, 2019
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    Memphis reading results prove that kids need ESAs now

    Next fall, thousands of Memphis children will qualify to participate in the new Education Savings Accounts (ESA) Program. They can receive about $7,300 in the account, which can be used for tuition at private schools, tutoring, textbooks, school uniforms and computers.

    By Justin Owen August 19, 2019
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    Increase bus ridership with more fixed routes, not on-demand service

    If MATA is committed to providing first-class transportation for the residents of Westwood and Boxtown, it should consider a plan recently proposed by retired bus driver Lonnie Britton to run buses through both neighborhoods every 30 minutes so riders can get to the Downtown bus terminals in 30 minutes.

    By Johnnie Mosley August 18, 2019
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    Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize this Republican Party

    In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools. 

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa August 14, 2019
  • Guest Columnists

    A principal’s plan to ‘get to know all of my scholars’

    A basketball league, an all-male mentorship program and 'restorative conversations' when students make mistakes are part of the Bruce Elementary principal's philosophy of education. 

    By Archie Moss August 12, 2019
  • Guest Columnists

    Walking in Memphis with an eye for its ‘considerable charm’

    If you were asked for a thoughtful vision statement that could become the guiding light for our entire city, what would it be? 

    By Roquita Coleman-Williams August 08, 2019
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    34% of Memphians volunteer; Volunteer Odyssey has ideas for the other 66%

    'Many of us have been taught that volunteerism and philanthropy should be completely selfless. I would argue that volunteering needs to be positive for the organization AND for the volunteer.'

    By Sarah Petschonek August 05, 2019
  • Guest Columnists

    A homebound student gets on faster track at virtual school

    The Tennessee Virtual Academy, a program under the Union County Public Schools, felt "like a custom-made school" for a student diagnosed with autism and epilepsy.

    By Tammy Messlein August 04, 2019
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    Hats, cookies and Memphis’ gratitude greet Teach For America corps

    TFA teachers make a commitment to the next generation of Memphians, and a group of community advocates makes sure those teachers get a welcome box and support when they arrive.

    By Tate Wilson, Kristy Dorman July 31, 2019
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    Bruce Elementary principal has a hit with ‘Bedtime Stories’

    Some students do not enjoy reading. I was one of those students growing up. I did not enjoy reading because I did not see myself in the books we had to read in school. It was important for me to select books that my students can relate to, and most importantly see themselves in.

    By Archie Moss July 29, 2019
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    Agape services take two-generation approach

    Services are simultaneously delivered to parents and children, and may include case management, counseling, tutoring, mentoring and life skills development.

    By David Jordan July 28, 2019
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    Working toward a better zoo for everyone

    The first-ever master plan for the zoo was developed in 1986 and was finished with the completion of Zambezi River Hippo Camp in 2016. It is now time for a new vision. Not for a bigger Memphis Zoo, but for a better Memphis Zoo.

    By Jim Dean July 25, 2019
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    MRPP should be ‘dismantled, fired and replaced’

    The Memphis River Parks Partnership has not disclosed to taxpayers how they plan to generate $1.1 billion in revenue by adding hills, trees and basketball courts to Tom Lee Park.

    By Amy Howell July 25, 2019
  • Guest Columnists

    Flipping the Bird

    Why – if we have bike lanes to keep cyclists, pedestrians and motorists safe – do we allow unregulated, motorized scooters to take over our sidewalks? 

    By Keith Goldberg July 24, 2019
  • Guest Columnists

    The C-suite isn’t the only place to find leaders

    The irony is this: The very process of trying to prove your value is devaluing. Yearning for more responsibility, more respect for your skills and talents, or even additional compensation can lead to burnout.

    By Roquita Coleman-Williams July 19, 2019
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    Sanford: Trump’s tweets make MAGA’s meaning clear

    Trump’s slogan from the beginning was code for marginalizing people of color as different and inferior, while assuring white Americans who have an innate fear and distrust of multiculturalism that they would have a president who was always on their side.

    By Otis Sanford July 18, 2019

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