State officials began executing death-row inmates again here last year — another just last week — but a group of conservatives is speaking out against the death penalty and says changes on it are afoot in red-state legislatures. Death Penalty Information Center Stephen Michael West was executed last week in Nashville. Stephen Michael West was […]
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Memphis City Council: Circumventing the People’s Will
On a preceding page of this issue, law professor Steve Mulroy, who paid his political dues as a two-term member of the Shelby County Commission, exhorts the candidates in this year’s city election to attend to certain overdue tasks. One of those is that of reviving the efforts, sabotaged at two governmental levels, including by […]
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Heartbeat Bill Goes From Bad to Worse
One of the standard ways in which the Tennessee legislature can dispose of troublesome legislation — the kind that has an active constituency that needs propitiation but is booby-trapped with unwanted controversy — is to send it to “summer study.” In most cases, that amounts to putting the inconvenient measure into a kind of limbo, […]
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Rudd Reveals University of Memphis president Dr. David Rudd revealed the new community basketball court planned for Orange Mound on Twitter last week. (Rudd is great on Twitter, BTW.) Posted to Twitter by @UofMemphisPres. The Doctor Is In! When Memphians see good barbecue, we tell each other. That’s just what Tumblr user memphispbarbecue did last […]
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MEMernet: Hack Memphis & 901 Memes
MLG&Waiting Posted to Instagram. Hack Memphis Last week, Reddit user runfreedog asked the internet for pro-tips or life hacks for living in Memphis. Memphisvol8668: If you want to feel alive, drive in the lane closest to the sidewalk on Poplar in either direction. KimJongHard-un: Or, alternatively, ride in the middle lane between a MATA bus […]
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MEMernet: Memplops
InstaPlop! Not all heroes wear capes, as the internet loves to say. Bluff City, meet yours: memplops. The memplops Instagram account posted its first bathroom review more than a year ago. It sat quietly in the loo until mid-June when it started cranking out the shi … hits, the hits. Memplops organizes bathrooms by type […]
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Crime and Punishment and Societal Problems
The issue of public safety is sure to surface sooner or later in this city election season. Fodder for it was provided on Tuesday during an address to the Rotary Club of Memphis from Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings. MPD director Mike Rallings As is usual under such circumstances, the head of MPD was prepared […]
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MEMernet: Buns Out, God Loves Memphis Mane
#sunsoutbunsout If you were on social media at all last week, you probably saw this man. The post went sort of Memphis-viral, appearing at times on Facebook, Twitter, and, of course, NextDoor. The original post reads: “Y’all. As I walked Arlo this morning in my lovely Central Gardens neighborhood, this is what I saw. I […]
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Mid-South Staycation Guide
It’s summertime, and the living is easy. Everyone loves to plan a getaway — maybe a vacation at the beach or in the mountains, or maybe a long-awaited trip to Europe. But vacations pass quickly, and soon, here you are, back in Memphis, Tennessee. But happily for us, that doesn’t mean our vacation has to […]
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MEMernet: Virtual Dad
A round-up of Memphis on the World Wide Web. Virtual Dad Will Loden wants to be your dad. If you never learned how to wash a car, throw a football, open a jar, or take a nap, Loden’s character “Virtual Dad” is ready to step in. About a year ago, Virtual Dad debuted with a […]
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Soul Fish locked and loaded Facebook: “Why is everyone in this restaurant packing heat?” ‘Absolute Trash’ An epic rant posted to Facebook recently sought to utterly destroy the redesign of the Audubon Place Target store. The 34-year-old “huge Target fan” claimed the store “has been my happy place,” that is until it reopened with a […]
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Why they lyin’? Leodan Rodriguez, “the first Latino Sigma in the history of the University of Memphis,” tweeted this beautiful scene: It got some comments: “Why they lyin?” “This is hilarious and so wrong.” “It doesn’t snow in Memphis…this is fake.” Yes, it was. Crucified Need some eye bleach from all the terrible stuff you’ve […]