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Opinion: Has Amazon encroached on the Adopt-A-School Program?

“With business giant Amazon adopting 20 schools in Memphis I am concerned that Amazon has encroached on Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ long-established Adopt-A-School program.”

By Caroline West May 27, 2023
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Guest Column: Tennessee Career Academy offers path for future of schooling

“We are living in a time of an identity crisis for K-12 and higher education. The laser-focus on college preparation for all students in K-12 education, regardless of their interests or skills, led to mismatched priorities, frustrated families, and uninterested graduates.”

By John Barker, Meah King May 27, 2023
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Guest Column: Find ways to support foster parenting and DCS

“Shelby County has plenty of stable, capable, caring adults with safe homes whose service to our community could make a big impact for a child, a family, or even the system as a whole.”

By Haley Vincent May 27, 2023
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Hutchinson: Think carefully before cosigning a loan

Cosigning for a child with no credit record to buy a first car may be a good decision; cosigning a credit card for a delinquent brother-in-law not so much.

By Randy Hutchinson May 27, 2023

  • Opinion

    Guest Column: Life-saving chemotherapy drugs are in short supply

    “This shortage is causing oncologists to make difficult decisions. Treatments are being skipped and delayed, doses are being reduced, treatments plans are being changed, and sequences of usual treatment are being altered.”

    By Dr. Sylvia Richey 23 hours ago
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Fighting back against a ‘crime-induced public health crisis’

    “Voter sentiment about our city’s crippling crime epidemic transcends socioeconomic, gender, racial and ethnic backgrounds. Actual voters want violent, repeat offenders off the streets, legally. They want the bail ‘loopholes’ closed for these offenders who should be held in jail and timely prosecuted.”

    By Chance Carlisle May 25, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Memphis City Council did not back down on gun reform

    “We must continue to let our state representatives know how their gun laws have completely upended our city and that we demand Tennessee’s urban cities be given the authority to impose their own firearm laws. It won’t be a quick or easy road.”

    By Dr. Jeff Warren May 24, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: For a safer Memphis, bail reform is the right solution

    “Loud and powerful opponents of progress, such as Mayor Jim Strickland, have wrongly claimed that Shelby County’s pretrial policies undermine public safety. There is no data behind his claims.”

    By Josh Spickler, Insha Rahman May 18, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Mark White: ‘The disease of undisciplined youth’

    “With drag racing, carjackings, car thefts, armed robberies — some resulting in death of victims — murders, etc., being reported every day in our city, we are well past the time of ‘we need to rehabilitate our youth.’”

    By Mark White May 18, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Bail reform is a disaster, needs to be reversed

    “The DA and our county commissioners need to stand up for the law-abiding people of Memphis and do whatever it takes to reverse this disastrous bail-reform policy.”

    By Leigh Ann Roman May 16, 2023
  • Opinion

    Guest Column: ‘People crave cities. They crave community.’

    “Our shared future can only be created in community. And to do that, we’ll need to use the most efficient and productive platform humanity has yet devised: a bustling, busy, connected urban center.”

    By Stuart Harris May 13, 2023
  • Opinion

    Opinion: The City of Memphis must get serious about affordable housing

    “The City of Memphis’ funding of its Affordable Housing Trust Fund has not been near enough. And it has lagged behind the funding in other peer cities.”

    By Roshun Austin May 12, 2023
  • Opinion

    Conaway: The chutzpah of deceit: Kelsey

    “Brian Kelsey is certainly not the only example of the moral bankruptcy of so much of our society; he’s just a ready and easy pick of low-hanging rotten fruit.”

    By Dan Conaway May 12, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Dear City of Memphis, Please text me if there’s a shooter at large

    “The City of Memphis should utilize the same tools that its colleges and universities and schools do when an imminent threat exists.”

    By Sarah Hunter Simanson May 08, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: How to take guns out of the hands of dangerous actors

    “This is not a quick fix on a long-term and wide-reaching issue, but it is a workable start in moving toward and safer and healthier Tennessee for all of us.”

    By John Gillespie May 08, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: New legislation will reduce violent crime in Memphis

    State Senator Brent Taylor discusses increasing penalties for certain violent crimes and proposed legislation that seeks to stem the rise in juvenile crime.

    By Brent Taylor May 07, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    G. Scott Morris: Pondering what constitutes ‘the Good Life’

    “Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, and above all these put on love which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”

    By G. Scott Morris May 07, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: The next mayor of Memphis should be a Memphian

    “Memphis should be led by someone who actually lives here, is committed to the city, and has demonstrated that commitment throughout their career.”

    By John Carroll April 27, 2023
  • Opinion

    Guest Column: Finding the spark that connects us to nature

    Celebrate Earth Day by spending some time observing a single creature — what it looks like, how it moves, how it interacts with other plants or creatures in its habitat, and whether it makes any distinctive sounds.

    By Melissa McMasters April 23, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Hutchinson: FTC challenges more bogus COVID claims

    “When there’s a medical breakthrough, you’re not going to hear about it first through an ad or sales pitch.”

    By Randy Hutchinson April 22, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: FedEx is a ‘power for good’ for St. Jude and the world

    “Having FedEx’s influence in Memphis the past 50 years — from the high-profile items like FedExForum and the Grizzlies to actions that fly under the larger radar like all the FedEx Cares events in Memphis — has been incalculable in making our city as amazing as we all enjoy it to be.”

    By Richard C. Shadyac Jr. April 20, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: For Johnson, Jones and Pearson, both the facts and the law are against them

    “If Johnson, Jones and Pearson think winning the argument means raising their personal profiles and raising lots of money to win safe Democratic seats, then the pounding and yelling seem to have paid off.”

    By Jordan Carpenter April 19, 2023
  • Opinion

    Opinion: Pearson’s reappointment signals change, but what can sustain it?

    “These three leaders effectively tapped into the political will of a demographic that had been held down, abused and ignored year after year. A megaphone was all that was needed to shatter Speaker Cameron Sexton’s fragile ego and trigger a political earthquake.”

    By Robert Donati April 19, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: MSCS, new superintendent should stay course on early literacy

    “We strongly urge the MSCS board and the next superintendent to continue making early literacy a top priority for our community.”

    By Teresa Sloyan, Gary Shorb April 17, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Can Tennessee get it together on guns?

    In an op-ed, Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Bill Haslam, who served as governors successively from 2003 to 2019, offered some specifics around “small step” gun restrictions as starting points.

    By Edward Felsenthal April 15, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Memphis’ future depends on transforming education

    “We must break down the system silos, invest strategically in communities, and hold ourselves across public and private interests accountable for results.”

    By Tutonial ‘Toni’ Williams , Mark Sturgis April 18, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Seeking refuge in America – and Memphis

    “Because of the sanitation workers’ strike and the tragic killing of Martin Luther King Jr. 55 years ago, Memphis has become a welcoming place for refugees and people fleeing unimaginable horrors back home.”

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa April 14, 2023
  • Opinion

    Opinion: Let’s make patient access to health care a priority

    “When teachers, sanitation workers and municipal employees must take time off work to drive across the state to receive care for sick children, we will all feel the consequences.”

    By Gary Shorb April 14, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: ‘Short-sighted officials with a liberal agenda’ help spread crime

    “We can’t solve the poverty and cultural issues that plague our community in the short or even medium term. But we can build more prisons, with an emphasis on reform.”

    By Shep Fargotstein April 13, 2023

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