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    Angel investing: a metaphorical flight

    Angel investing is our way of helping Memphis (and ourselves) continue to prosper. It is incredibly risky, yes, but it is incredibly rewarding in ways that don’t show up on a monthly statement.

    By Dev Varma April 24, 2019
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    Nelson: How to fight recidivism with great books

    The parole board was blown away when a woman who had spent 25 years behind bars, and who was a member of the great books group at West Tennessee State Penitentiary, quoted Herodotus in answer to a question about how she now defined success.

    By Michael Nelson April 18, 2019
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    Alexander: Shorter FAFSA application will help 400,000 Tennessee families

    The students we most want to help are often the ones most intimidated by this federal form. The former president of Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis said he believes that he lost 1,500 students each semester because the complicated FAFSA discouraged students and their families from applying.

    By Lamar Alexander April 21, 2019
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    Memphis 3.0 focuses on the city’s core

    Memphis 3.0 is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and for very good reason. Communities across Memphis are unique places with their own assets that are vital to support future prosperity.

    By J.W. Gibson April 17, 2019
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    On police pay, Atlanta offers Memphis a convenient truth

    Unlike Atlanta, we live in a city with a mayor who offered police a 3% raise, and when we told him that wasn’t enough, he said that was all he had to give.

    By Faith Marshall April 17, 2019
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    An officer and an ex-offender face past trauma in Playback

    In police and prison culture, vulnerability has a bad rap. Not only are you not allowed to express your feelings (except anger), you are not allowed to even have feelings. But isn’t the capacity for tenderness what makes us human? 

    By Virginia Murphy April 16, 2019
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    Beacon Center: On EDGE and PILOTs, the numbers don’t add up

    Peel back the fancy ribbon-cutting ceremonies and press conferences for new jobs and all you’re left with is handouts to big, connected companies and higher taxes for the rest of us.

    By Ron Shultis April 14, 2019
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    EDGE: Tax abatement works in a competitive world

    Companies want to locate in communities that will work with them long after the ribbon-cutting and headlines are done. We know that our local firms are constantly being courted by other communities looking to grow their economies.

    By Reid Dulberger April 14, 2019
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    Memphis campus looks back 50 years at the Black Student Association sit-ins

    In the late 1960s, African-American students at Memphis State would not settle for second-class citizenship, especially when they paid tuition like their white counterparts, and their parents’ tax dollars supported the institution like the parents of their white counterparts. So they organized.

    By Shirletta J. Kinchen April 12, 2019
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    Memphis music for April: Collaboration

    There’s something wonderful about musical collaborations, both the totally unexpected and the so-perfect-together-they’re-completely-obvious.

    By Elizabeth Cawein April 13, 2019
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    Leadership Memphis program inspired volunteer

    Unlike other programs, the Leadership Memphis FastTrack program challenges young professionals and up-and-coming leaders to think outside of their normal scope, giving them a greater appreciation for diversity in culture, background, economics, community, industry and more.

    By Christin Webb April 15, 2019
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    Diversity isn’t an item on a bucket list

    'My insight on diversity had come from experience as the diverse candidate or double minority. My experience had come as a benefactor of diverse hiring initiatives that opened doors that would have otherwise been closed to someone like me.' 

    By Roquita Coleman-Williams April 10, 2019
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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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    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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    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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    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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    When her husband was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, a woman who started her own business from home dropped everything to care for him and their three young daughters. Ten years later, the entrepreneurial spirit returned. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff April 08, 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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    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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    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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    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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