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Willie Herenton Says Goodbye -- Really

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Published July 30, 2009 at 11:39 p.m.

[image-5] ... Let it be recorded that the very heavens opened when Willie Herenton left the job of Memphis mayor -- for leave it he did, via a “retirement ceremony” in the Hall of Mayors, at the end of which he finally hand-delivered a formal letter of resignation to the patiently waiting city council chairman/acting mayor Myron Lowery.[image-1] ... Meanwhile, thunder and lightning and torrential rains and tornado rumors outside City Hall and throughout the city accompanied Herenton’s

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Memphis police getting close to break in Burks shooting case

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Published July 27, 2009 at 2:54 p.m.

As a stream of Tigers and Grizzlies stopped at his bedside over the past few days, Antonio Burks has had one thing on his mind: Chicken tenders. The former basketball player for the Memphis Tigers and Memphis Grizzlies was shot between his abdomen and upper leg during a robbery July 20, but he has been "up and talking" the last couple of days, said his mentor, Ken Bennett ...

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All in the Numbers

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Published June 18, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.

The stakes are school funding, student performance, newspapersurvival, the NCAA investigation of the University of Memphis, thelocal tax rate, and the viability of our sports facilities. In eachcase, a few simple numbers would tell us more than a stack of reportsand position papers. But for various reasons, those numbers are hard toget ... • The Memphis City Schools system has been losing students forseveral years. The question is how many and how fast? The questionmatters because funding is

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You Know the Names

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Published May 11, 2009 at 11:02 a.m.

Our Grizzlies may have missed the NBA playoffs a third straight year, but there's plenty of Memphis in the post-season if you look closely enough. By a degree or two of separation, all eight teams in the conference semifinals have a player with some Bluff City in his rear-view. Following is a list, in descending order of current impact by the player ... L.A. LAKERS -- Pau Gasol. He remains the Grizzlies' all-time leading scorer (8,966 points) and rebounder (4,096), and the only All-Star in

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A Daughter’s Decade

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Published May 4, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

I'm celebrating a significant anniversary this week. While my first-born daughter would tell you May 6th is her 10th birthday, I choose to join the parade in honor of my first decade as a father. Needless to say, I'll never experience another such decade; my hope is merely to approximate the joy I've taken over the last 10 years. I've come to realize that a father is judged much like an elite modern athlete: What has he done today to make a difference? And what might he do in the days ahead to

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From My Seat: Of Moments and Memories

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Published April 27, 2009 at 11:14 a.m.

Sports fans across the country -- particularly baseball fans -- were struck with heavy hearts by the recent passing of Harry Kalas and Mark Fidrych (both men died on April 13th). Neither man was an active athlete, a player in the arena. Neither had won or lost a game in more than a quarter century. But the grief since their death has been substantial, in some respects outweighing the impact Kalas (a broadcaster) or Fidrych (a pitcher washed up before his 30th birthday) had on a playing field. As

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