In time, the fuss and bother over Todd Akin’s impolitic and unscientific remarks about a woman’s biological ability to offset “legitimate rape” may blow over, as might the puzzling defense of the Missouri Senate candidate’s remark at last week’s Republican National Convention by a fellow Republican, Tennessee state senator Joe Carr of Rutherford County. Perhaps […]

The Shelby County Commission seems to have done the right thing for the right reasons with its override Monday of a mayoral veto. We say that in full knowledge that people in the suburbs and city government are sure to disagree. The former are absolutely certain, as their spokespersons on the commission made clear, that […]

Not entirely lost in the shuffle of other breaking news — Mayor Wharton’s parleys with Governor Haslam for state aid on poverty issues and airport development; earthquake tremors on the board of the glitch-plagued Shelby County Election Commission; the continuing dispute among local jurisdictions for the right to impose a sales-tax increase — was another […]

Richard Gilbertson, head of the Cancer Center at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital here in Memphis, is surely one of the world leaders personally — as St. Jude is institutionally — in the resolution of the myriad mysteries that stand in the way of humanity’s coming to grips with the disease of cancer. “Diseases,” actually, […]