After more than a year of virtual learning, the University of Memphis plans a tentative return to face-to-face classes this fall, granted that the local coronavirus data is not significantly worse than it is now. The return to pre-pandemic campus life comes at a high cost and new measures. For ...
A month after former Vice President Al Gore joined community leaders and activists in Alonzo Weaver Park in Southwest Memphis to decry the construction of the Byhalia Pipeline, civil rights leader Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II took to the same stage on Sunday, April 18, to send a message to representatives ...
After high school, I relocated to Memphis from a small, rural town in Arkansas to attend the UofM. Moving from a community of less than 20,000 inhabitants to the Bluff City – which has a population greater than 650,000 – was overwhelming to say the least. I lived off campus, and I worked off ...
When Don Fletcher graduated from The University of Memphis in 1997 with a degree in civil engineering, he never imagined he would one day be working in construction. Now, some 20 years later, Fletcher serves as the director of quality control at Lehman-Roberts Co., a leading Mid-South construction firm. How ...
The Tennessee General Assembly has passed a law that would remove gun permit requirements for most Tennesseans — a change widely opposed by law enforcement. The legislation, which passed in the state Senate on March 18 and passed the Tennessee House of Representatives Monday night, is part of ...
Former Vice President Al Gore joined the Memphis community’s fight against the Byhalia Pipeline – calling it a “reckless, racist rip-off” – at a rally held Sunday, March 14, at Alonzo Weaver Park in South Memphis. “When the pipeline representatives said this is the path of least resistance, ...
After a bumpy start that saw delays, expired doses and calls for an FBI investigation, the City of Memphis has taken over the vaccine administration process locally and is now allowing members of the risk-based group 1c and those who are 65 years or older to receive the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, ...
The Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus has sent a letter to the presidents and chancellors of each of Tennessee’s public universities – including University of Memphis President M. David Rudd – urging them to enact policies that would prohibit student athletes from protesting during sporting events, ...
For at least seven days over the past two weeks, the Shelby County Health Department closed COVID-19 vaccination sites and cancelled appointments due to inclement weather. Despite the cancellations, Shelby County residents without appointments reported on multiple occasions that they were able to obtain ...
R/wallstreetbets (WSB), the subreddit largely responsible for the GameStop short squeeze that shook Wall Street and leviathan hedge funds in January, has quite possibly become one of the most infamous sub-threads on Reddit, a popular social news aggregate and discussion website. As Wall Street, ...
