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    Calkins: These Tigers will be awesome! (And it better be soon).

    The Memphis Tigers have loads of talent. They showed it again as they opened their season with a 94-77 win over Jackson State. Now all the Tigers have to do is mold that talent into an elite team. By Friday, would be best.

    By Geoff Calkins November 07, 2023
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    Opinion: Before another MLGW rate increase, customers deserve answers

    “City Council has continuously approved MLGW’s requests, while ratepayers continue to receive subpar, substandard services. It is long past time for the residential customers and stakeholders to be put first!”

    By Glenda Hicks November 06, 2023
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    Echols: ‘Pondering is a thing of the past’

    “But coffee and relationships and creativity — these are the gifts of slow living. These are the places in which we are called to fully inhabit our fleshliness.”

    By Candace Echols November 05, 2023
  • Opinion

    Morris: Finding a primary physician leads to better health

    “The data is clear that having a physician you develop a relationship with over time leads to better health outcomes in almost every way that can be measured.”

    By G. Scott Morris November 05, 2023
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Art isn’t our decoration; it’s our measure

    “I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.”

    By Dan Conaway November 03, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Public safety is a key to Downtown’s future

    “The key to maintaining and building on Downtown Memphis’ momentum is to get a handle on the reality and perception of public safety concerns and to do so with a healthy sense of urgency.”

    By Bill Gibbons November 01, 2023
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Three 6 Mafia song a ‘bridge between the past and the present’

    “Music, particularly in Memphis, has always been a reflection of our diverse culture and shared experiences. While the lyrics of some songs might not resonate positively with everyone, they do reflect the challenges, triumphs and stories of their creators and many listeners.”

    By Letters to the Editor October 31, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Why creative music engagement in the classroom matters

    “The formative years in grades 6-12 are prime years to cultivate a love for music. Together, we can impact our children, from the classroom to the community.”

    By Gavin Wigginson October 31, 2023
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: She’s 107. She still lives alone. The secret? It’s not what you think.

    Martha McAnespie celebrated her 107th birthday over the weekend. Yes, her 107th. And she still lives alone. The Daily Memphian got her story and her secret, too. It’s not what you might think. 

    By Geoff Calkins October 30, 2023
  • Opinion

    Echols: Asking honest questions and listening to each other’s honest answers

    “We sometimes talk through the nuances of our mid-life femaleness with a candid honesty that I would call uncommon. ... We share stories about our aunts and mothers, our sisters and grandmothers.”

    By Candace Echols October 29, 2023
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Chicken Tossing Days and Dog Dipping Days, a prophetic tale

    Cas Walker wasn’t in denial about his outrageous business practices and politics, he knew they were outrageous, and he was proud of every one of them.

    By Dan Conaway October 27, 2023
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Talk of rejecting federal education dollars is an exercise in lunacy

    “No other state has been successful in turning down federal education money, so Tennessee is plowing new ground with this wrong-headed, purely political sideshow.”

    By Otis Sanford October 26, 2023
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Yep, the Grizzlies lost another opener. But you should have seen the happy tears.

    Sure, the home team lost another opener. But there were actual happy tears at the game. Why? Because the Memphis Grizzlies are back for their 23rd year. 

     

    By Geoff Calkins October 26, 2023
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    Herrington: Dying by the 3, and other Grizzlies first impressions

    The Grizzlies were too reliant on 3-point shooting and had no defensive presence at the rim when Jaren Jackson Jr. wasn’t on the floor are two of the observations from the first game of the season.

    By Chris Herrington October 26, 2023
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: He was held up at gunpoint — and he can’t imagine working anywhere else.

    “There is a lot of negative press about this city. But there’s good stuff happening, every day,” says Cody Behles, director of innovation and research support at the University of Memphis. 

    By Geoff Calkins October 23, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Greenstein: Quitting isn’t an option

    Opinion: “Despite what has happened and is still happening to a Jewish State surrounded by genocidal terrorist entities bent on eradicating her, quitting isn’t an option for Israeli neighbors.”

    By Micah Greenstein October 22, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Echols: ‘There aren’t words for anguish like this’

    “Grieve with your brokenhearted friends. Grieve the war their people are involved in. Grieve the evil (it’s important that we call it what it is – evil – when human beings are slaughtered) and violence towards the innocent people.”

    By Candace Echols October 22, 2023
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: A lesson over eggs and coffee

    We’ll do it again. And we’ll be loud. And we’ll enjoy it. I may even try one of those three-egg omelet things, but they can keep the raspberry mocha.

    By Dan Conaway October 20, 2023
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: It’s a game of wait-and-see with the Memphis Grizzlies

    Waiting is a theme for the Memphis Grizzlies these days.

    Related story:

    Grizzlies Insider: Luke Kennard’s ‘life as a shooter’

    By Chris Herrington October 19, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: The importance of staying safe on the school bus

    Bus safety tips to help students, parents and educators during School Bus Safety Week and all year long.

    By Darryl Hill October 19, 2023
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Rocks, alligators and umbrellas. The continuing saga of Ja Morant.

    The most important part of ESPN’s story on Ja Morant isn’t anything in the story. It’s the impact it could have on Morant. A column about alligators, rocks and umbrellas — and what they all may mean.

    By Geoff Calkins October 18, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Questions for MLGW before voting on a 12% electric rate hike

    Opinion: “Instead of our publicly owned utility sharing with us — its owners — where that money has gone, MLGW is once again proposing a hefty rate increase for infrastructure.”

    By Ray Bauer, Glenda Hicks October 17, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Memphis and all of us need ‘an economy of grace’

    “I wonder, if we resist the urge to focus on the transactions and lean into grace, might we smooth our path forward into becoming a city where everyone is seen, heard, and cherished as a gift.”

    By Joshua Henry Narcisse October 15, 2023
  • Letters to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor: Three 6 Mafia song has ‘no place as an anthem for a leader’

    Cindy Hazen of Memphis writes in an opinion letter: “Songs that glamorize Glocks, slurs against women, murder and drug dealing have no place being an anthem for a leader of a city that’s drowning in violence.”

    By Letters to the Editor October 15, 2023
  • Guest Columnists

    Hutchinson: Student loan debt relief fraud is rampant

    With 43 million Americans resuming payments as the COVID-related moratorium ends and President Biden forgiving as many student loans as he can under various relief programs, the situation is ripe for student loan debt relief fraud.

    By Randy Hutchinson October 14, 2023

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