Greg Cravens About Randy Haspel’s column, “Give ‘Em Hill” … I hate people who make Hillary look good. It’s a conspiracy wrapped in a plot inside a fraud. CL Mullins Oh look, Hillary won a Kewpie doll. Oh wait, that’s Trey Gowdy. Make it a Kreepie doll. Jeff Actually he’s the kid holding the banjo […]
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Jimmy Carter and Fred Thompson: A Worthy Pair
A pair of circumstances this week reminded us that — current cynical views of our political system notwithstanding — honorable individuals do seek public office, manage to gain it, and behave honorably while doing so. Former President Jimmy Carter One reminder came on Monday, with the visit to Memphis of 91-year-old Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the […]
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What They Said…
Greg Cravens About Toby Sells’ post, “Bill Would Remove Hoover’s Name From FBI Building” … Politicians should be focused on rewriting the future, not rewriting history. JR Moody Hey, who let Congressman Trey Gowdy in here? Packrat The name of the building should be changed. This man was a pure racist and shouldn’t be honored […]
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It’s Paul Ryan for Speaker — for better or worse
Want to hear a good one? For much of the last month, the House speakership being vacated by Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio) was going unfilled because the sizeable super-right minority of Republican House members who call themselves the “Freedom Caucus” were finding Boehner’s most likely replacement, Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) too “moderate” to hold the […]
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Memphis’ Winning Streak
Here we are on the seam of two athletic seasons, and we’re getting a little giddy. There’s the collegiate football season still underway for the University of Memphis, but already, with the Tigers not just bowl-eligible but undefeated and, after the near-blowout victory over Ole Miss, ranked, the commentators are saying, quite seriously, the Tigers […]
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Greg Cravens About Tim Sampson’s column, “Thanks, Mayor Wharton” … As a loyal supporter of Mayor A C Wharton, I concur with Tim Sampson’s thoughts. Opponents blamed the Inquisition on him, the race riots in Watts, the overthrow of the Roman Empire, you name it, but not one time did you hear the man complain. […]
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Greg Cravens About Candice Baxter’s cover story, ”Size Matters” … I can’t see mass acceptance of 500-sq.-ft. houses, but I do think downsizing is a very real trend. I suspect people have had their fill of bloated mortgage payments for 3,000-plus-sq.-ft. homes in the burbs. Then again, oversized houses are now being built in Rossville, […]
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Shelby County Commission: A Matter of Law
Not unexpectedly, a bid by the Shelby County Commission to hire Julian Bolton, a former commissioner, as the commission’s independent attorney has been turned back by the existing county attorney, Ross Dyer. Jackson Baker Terry Roland Dyer cited the county charter in ruling basically that the new attorney — any new attorney — would have […]
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Making Crime Pay in Tennessee
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Back during the 1970s and 1980s, many states and the federal government enacted stiffer, often mandatory, punishments for drug offenses. The “war on drugs” resulted in a rapid increase in the number of imprisoned Americans. The resulting burden on the public sector led to the emergence of private, for-profit prison companies. […]
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Greg Cravens About the Flyer’s editorial, “Suburbs of Nothing” … Please let us folks in the ‘burbs know when Memphis becomes one of those walkable, lively urban environments. By ‘lively,” I don’t mean lively with gunfire, either. Or perhaps the Memphis mayor could start to heal the breach by simply sitting down and talking with […]
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Greg Cravens About Toby Sells’ post, “Zoo Grant to Renovate Herpatarium” … This is good to hear. Long past time for the zoo to do something about that exhibit. Now if they could only get a grant to update the aquarium. Jeff Yes, the aquarium is very sad. The exhibit at a tropical fish store […]
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Running For Election? Show Yourself.
We write this just after having witnessed the four major Memphis mayoral candidates in a debate at a Rotary Club luncheon at the University Club. By general consensus, not excluding partisans of each of the four, all of them — Mayor A C Wharton, Councilmen Harold Collins and Jim Strickland, and Memphis Police Association president […]