Calkins: RFK said kids with autism will never hold a job? Don’t tell this Memphian.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a tour of the Texas A&M AgriLife Phenotyping Greenhouse in College Station, Texas, on April 29. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Let’s say this right upfront: Kim Jameson really, really wants kids with autism to grow up to pay taxes.
And to play baseball.
And to write poems.
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