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Bhan Thai

1324 Peabody (272-1538)

bhanthairestaurant.com

Come celebrate Valentine’s week with us, Thursday, February 14th through Sunday, February 17th. Chef Sorrasit “Alex” Sittranont will serve up specials throughout the weekend sure to please your better half’s palate. Be sure to visit our covered patio out back for a delicious cocktail and fellowship.

Ferraro’s Pizzeria & Pub

111 Jackson (522-2033)

ferraros-memphis.com

We’re rolling out new menu items: The Godfather Sandwich: 3 Cheese Lasagna, battered and deep fried, marinara, Provolone, and Romano; and Mac + Cheese Bites: our homemade Mac and Cheese, battered and deep fried. Plus so much more. Free delivery.

The Guest House at Graceland

3600 Elvis Presley (473-6100)

guesthousegraceland.com

Every day is the perfect day for romance! That is why our culinary team will feature a romantic Valentine’s Dinner menu on February 14th, 15th, and 16th. This special menu is available at Delta’s Kitchen from 5 until 10 p.m. Please call 901-473-6100 for reservations.

Lafayette’s Music Room

2119 Madison (207-5097)

Lafayettes.com/memphis

Spoil your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day at Lafayette’s. Enjoy a delicious three-course prix fixe dinner with champagne toast and live music. VIP Dinner Package $65 per person (tax included). Add Bottle Service for $40 or Super Premium Bottle Service for $125. For tickets and information, visit Lafayettes.com/memphis.

Memphis Pizza Cafe

2087 Madison in Midtown (726-5343)

5061 Park in East Memphis (684-1306)

7604 W. Farmington in Germantown (753-2218)

memphispizzacafe.com

Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Memphis Pizza Cafe. We will be serving up large heart shaped pizzas for you to split with your sweetheart. Come by any of our three locations and see why Memphis Pizza Cafe is a favorite among Memphians. Winner of the Best of Memphis readers poll in 25 of 26 years.

Molly’s La Casita

2006 Madison, Midtown Memphis (726-1873)

mollyslacasita.com

Valentine’s Day will be sweet at Molly’s La Casita! Our delightful special consists of a medium cheese dip, grilled beef, chicken, or combo Fajitas, and Viva Chocolate Brownie for dessert. All for just $25.

Mulan Asian Bistro

2149 Young (347-3965)

mulanbistro.net

2059 S. Houston Levee in Collierville (850-5288)

4698 Spottswood (609-8680)

mulaneast.net

Celebrate Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year at Mulan Asian Bistro. They were voted Best Chinese by Memphis Flyer readers for more than five years. Come by any of our three locations in Cooper-Young, East Memphis, or Collierville, or order online and have it delivered to your front door.

Regina’s Cajun Kitchen

60 N. Main Street (730-0384)

reginascajunkitchen.com

Bring your sweetheart to Regina’s Cajun Kitchen for Valentine’s Day, where they will be offering three-course meals with a glass of wine and a murder mystery show for $30. Regular menu items will also be available.

Restaurant Iris

2146 Monroe (590-2828)

restaurantiris.com

Make Valentine’s easy this year with the ultimate celebratory package for two featuring your choice of two Restaurant Iris favorites (choose from a meat or fish entree plus appetizer), Rachel’s Flowers roses, Muddy’s cupcakes, and spirits pairings from Joe’s Wines & Liquor for only $150. Go to restaurantiris.com for more information. Deadline to order is February 10th.

Second Line

2144 Monroe (590-2829)

secondlinememphis.com

Join us Thursday, February 14th for a three-course dinner featuring Restaurant Iris classics like surf and turf, shrimp and grits, and bread pudding for $60 per person. Enjoy complimentary champagne and a flower for each lady. Make reservations by emailing pgilbert@chefkellyenglish.com.

Slider Inn

2117 Peabody (725-1155)

@thesliderinn

Yo! It’s gonna be “Nuts & Bolts at Slider Inn.” We’ll explain the concept when you arrive. Keep in mind, we’ll have all-night specials on Grey Goose Cherry Penetrators.

Westy’s

346 N. Main (543-3278)

westysmemphis.com

Experience a lovely dinner for two after taking your sweetheart on a romantic carriage ride through the heart of Downtown Memphis, for only $99.95. Dinner entrees include your choice of steak, salmon, or shrimp. This offer is valid Thursday, February 14th through Saturday, February 16th. Please call or visit our website to make reservations.

Young Avenue Deli

2119 Young (278-0034)

youngavenuedeli.com

Have a fun-filled date with your sweetie at Young Avenue Deli. We have pool tables, games, great food, 130 beer options, and 36 rotating drafts.

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Editorial Opinion

Grading Government on the Curve

CREDIT: Justin Fox Burks

It is probably too early to give out report cards on our various branches of government, but before we move deeper into what could turn out to be a crucial year, a little preliminary judgmentalism might serve a constructive purpose.

Justin Fox Burks

Lee Harris

To start with the national government: Now, that is an unruly classroom. As a collective institution, it gets an Incomplete, and that’s grading charitably. The president, Donald Trump, gets an F, and that, too, is almost an act of charity. It almost implies that Trump is trying to succeed at something. There’s no question that the president has failed singly — to articulate and carry out a coherent, productive theme of government, as well as to accomplish any of his sundry private goals, notorious among which is his insistence on building a wall on our southern border. One of the first things most of us learned in school was the folly of the Great Wall of China. At enormous expense, an impenetrable barrier was erected across that Asian nation’s northern frontier, preventing potentially troublesome access from without but also dooming a once thriving kingdom to hundreds of years of isolation and stagnation from which it is only now recovering. Trump would have us repeat that doomed experiment. Meanwhile, he is failing at various other assignments and seems not to know the meaning of homework.

On the score of conduct, he also fails at working and playing with others — having made a mess of our relations with long and trusted allies and simultaneously permitting — or inviting — outside bullies of his acquaintance to nose into our classroom and creating enough mayhem of his own to shut things down altogether. All in all, some form of expulsion may be the only option here.

At the level of state government, we’ve just begun what amounts to a new semester, and from the looks of things [see cover story], the various students involved in the  process seem entitled, at the very least, to an A for effort.

We have a city council that is just getting reorganized after several of its members transferred to other institutions. The reconstituted group is about to undergo crucial exams in the form of an election year, as is Mayor Strickland, whose authority to lead the body is about to be tested as well. The final grades here will come decisively this fall.

County government is off in a brand new direction under the tutelage of a new mayor, Lee Harris, who is proposing what amounts to a new curriculum based on re-evaluating the nature of justice. So far the body of commissioners he’s working with seem inclined to follow his example and are working in harness, keenly exploring the new group project. This effort, too, needs some additional time for evaluation, but we are impressed so far.

Government is an inexact science, and opinions about it are famously subjective. All grading is, more or less, on the curve of our relatively modest expectations. We will periodically  look in on the various branches of government in this space and let you know what progress, if any, is being made.

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News News Feature

Best Doctors

The Flyer has commissioned the Best Doctors to provide this list of best physicians in the Memphis/Shelby County area. Doctors cannot pay to be on the list. Of course, no list is definitive, and if your physician is not included, it does not reflect negatively on his or her abilities. Any survey, no matter how it’s conducted, is subjective. The Flyer is providing this list as an informational service to its readers.

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Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School physicians, Best Doctors connects individuals facing difficult medical treatment decisions with the best doctors, selected by impartial peer review in over 450 medical specialty/subspecialty combinations, to review their diagnosis and treatment plans.

Best Doctors’ team of researchers conducts a biennial poll using the methodology that mimics the informal peer-to-peer process doctors themselves use to identify the right specialists for their patients. Using a polling method and proprietary balloting software, they gather the insight and experience of tens of thousands of leading specialists all over the country, while confirming their credentials and specific areas of expertise.

The result is the Best Doctors in America® List, which includes the nation’s most respected specialists and outstanding primary care physicians in the nation. These are the doctors that other doctors recognize as the best in their fields. They cannot pay a fee and are not paid to be listed and cannot nominate or vote for themselves. It is a list which is truly unbiased and respected by the medical profession and patients alike as the source of top quality medical information.

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These lists are excerpted from The Best Doctors in America® 2017-2018 database, which includes close to 40,000 U.S. doctors in more than 450 medical specialty/subspecialty combinations. The Best Doctors in America® database is compiled and maintained by Best Doctors, Inc. For more information, visit www.bestdoctors.com or contact Best Doctors by telephone at 800-675-1199 or by e-mail at research@bestdoctors.com. Please note that lists of doctors are not available on the Best Doctors Web site.

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Allergy and Immunology

Phillip L. Lieberman

Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Center

6104 Poplar Blvd

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-757-6100

Cardiovascular Disease

Paul G. Hess

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation

6027 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 112

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-818-0300

Frank A. McGrew III

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation

8060 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-271-1000

Critical Care Medicine

Richard Boswell

Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 800

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-276-2662

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Alan J. Cohen

The Endocrine Clinic

5659 S Rex Rd

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-763-3636

Samuel Dagogo-Jack

UT Regional One Physicians

Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 5th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

Family Medicine

Timothy E. Folse

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Lee W. McCallum

Methodist Medical Group

8115 Country Villiage Dr

Cordova, TN 38016

Phone: 901-752-2300

G. Scott Morris

Church Health

1350 Concourse Ave, Ste 142

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Susan F. Nelson

Church Health

1350 Concourse Ave, Ste 142

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Jeffery S. Warren

Primary Care Specialists

3109 Walnut Grove Rd

Memphis, TN 38111

Phone: 901-458-0162

J. Kenneth Wong

Baptist Medical Group

Family Physicians Group

3091 Kirby Whitten Rd

Bartlett, TN 38134

Phone: 901-752-6963

Gastroenterology

Edward L. Cattau, Jr.

Gastro One

8000 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-3630

Geriatric Medicine

Derene Akins

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 105

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Hand Surgery

James Calandruccio

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Mark Jobe

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Infectious Disease

Kerry O. Cleveland

UT Methodist Physicians – Infectious Disease

1325 Eastmoreland Ave, Ste 370

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-758-7888

Stephen C. Threlkeld

6029 Walnut Grove, Ste C002

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-685-3490

Internal Medicine

Derene Akins

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 105

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Joseph E. Allen II

Sanders Clinic

6027 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-525-1438

Anita Lynn Arnold

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

James E. Bailey

UT Regional One Physicians

Internal Medicine Clinic Outpatient Center, 5th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

J. Hays Brantley

Methodist Medical Group

5182 Sanderlin Ave, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38117

Phone: 901-685-0152

John Buttross

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Tommy Campbell

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Cary Martin Finn

Finn Medical Associates

6025 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 627

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-3321

E. Arthur Franklin

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Lynda J. Freeland

5200 Park Ave, Ste 204

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-567-5505

Ara James Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Gina R. Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Burton Hayes

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-758-7888

Mary M. Hurley

7514 Corporate Center Dr, Ste 100

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-5333

Gregory K. Jenkins

Baptist Medical Group

Jenkins and Nease Internal Medicine

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 100

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-260-3100

David Jennings

Church Health

1350 Concourse Ave, Ste 142

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-0003

Charles W. Munn

Methodist Medical Group

6570 Summer Oaks Cove

Memphis, TN 38134

Phone: 901-373-7100

H. Howard Nease

Baptist Medical Group

Jenkins and Nease Internal Medicine

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 100

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-260-3100

Jolie G. Porter

Methodist Medical Group

7690 Wolf River Cir

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-756-1231

G. Van Dyck Rushing

Cresthaven Internal Medicine

6799 Great Oaks Rd, Ste 250

Memphis, TN 38138

Phone: 901-821-8300

Martha N. Taylor

Methodist Medical Group

7690 Wolf River Cir

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-756-1231

Natascha Thompson

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38108

Phone: 901-758-7888

A. Graham Warr

The Light Clinic

7715 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-328-6031

William T. Weiss

6401 Poplar Ave, Ste 270

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-766-1967

Catherine Womack

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-758.7888

Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine

James B. Lewis, Jr.

Memphis VA Medical Center

Education Services

1030 Jefferson Ave

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-523-8990

Wiley Robinson

Inpatient Physicians of the Mid-South

6263 Poplar Ave, Ste 1052

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-6157

Medical Genetics

Eniko Pivnick

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Genetics Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8818

Jewell C. Ward

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Genetics Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6472

Medical Oncology and Hematology

Reed Carl Baskin

Baptist Cancer Center

2996 Kate Bond Rd, Ste 100

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-383-5570

Salil Goorha

Baptist Cancer Center

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 330

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-752-6131

Robert Alan Johnson

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Raymond Osarogiagbon

Baptist Cancer Center

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 220

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-752-6131

Thomas Ratliff

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Lee Schwartzberg

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Kurt Tauer

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Carmel Verrier

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

William K. Walsh

Baptist Cancer Center

2996 Kate Bond Rd, Ste 207

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-379-0703

Nephrology

Margaret Colleen Hastings

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8822

Steven J. Schwab

UT Regional One Physicians

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 5th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-4796

Neurological Surgery

Adam Arthur

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Frederick Boop

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Kevin T. Foley

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Paul Klimo

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7722

Jon H. Robertson

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Maurice M. Smith

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Neurology

Thomas W. Arnold

Neurology Clinic

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 300

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-747-1111

Tulio E. Bertorini

Wesley Neurology Clinic

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 305

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-261-3500

Stephen H. Landy

Baptist Medical Group

Neurology Specialists

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 210

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-4910

Mark LeDoux

Wesley Neurology Clinic

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 305

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-261-3500

Michael C. Levin

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Neurology Link Bldg, Ste 415

855 Monroe Ave

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-6199

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Amelia Bailey

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

Paul Brezina

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

Thomas H. Crenshaw

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Joseph DeWane

Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecology

6246 Poplar Ave

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-4491

Vanessa Givens

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Thomas L. Gray

Integrated Physician Services

8000 Centerview Pkwy, Ste 108

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-725-1864

Raymond W. Ke

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

A. Franklin Kennedy

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

T. Franklin King

Adams Patterson Gynecology & Obstetrics

1727 Kirby Pkwy, Ste 200

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-767-3810

William H. Kutteh

Fertility Associates of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 307

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-2229

Frank W. Ling

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Gary H. Lipscomb

University Clinical Health

UT Family Medicine

1301 Primacy Pkwy

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-866-8812

Diane M. Long

Ruch Clinic

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-682-0630

Giancarlo Mari

UT Regional One Physicians

Maternal Fetal Medicine Services Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3800

Mary N. McDonald

McDonald Murrmann Center for Wellness Health

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 150

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-4000

Christine S. Mestemacher

Mtestemacher Clinic for Women

7918 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-624-4444

Norman L. Meyer

UT Regional One Physicians

Maternal Fetal Medicine Services Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3700

Susan G. Murrmann

McDonald Murrmann Center for Wellness Health

7205 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 150

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-752-4000

Owen P. Phillips

UT Regional One Physicians

OB/GYN Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3800

S. Gregory Portera

Center for Urinary and Pelvic Disorders

6215 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 110

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-227-9610

Joseph T. Santoso

Baptist Medical Group

Gynecologic Surgical Specialists

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 202

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-4280

Linda M. Smiley

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Thomas G. Stovall

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Robert L. Summitt, Jr.

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Todd David Tillmanns

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-0055

Val Y. Vogt

Women’s Health Specialists

7800 Wolf Trail Cove

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-682-9222

Ophthalmology

Steve Charles

Charles Retina Institute

1432 Kimbrough Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-767-4499

Brian M. Jerkins

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 200

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-6650

Gary Passons

Passons Eye Center

909 Ridgeway Loop

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-683-1112

Matthew W. Wilson

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 200

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-6650

Orthopaedic Surgery

Frederick Martin Azar

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1211 Union Ave, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-759-5432

James Wilson Harkess

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1458 W Poplar Ave, Ste 100

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-759-3111

Robert H. Miller III

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Michael D. Neel

OrthoMemphis

Briarcrest Professional Bldg, Ste 200

6286 Briarcrest Ave

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-1684

Barry B. Phillips

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Kenneth S. Weiss

OrthoMemphis

Briarcrest Professional Bldg, Ste 200

6286 Briarcrest Ave

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-259-1684

Otolaryngology

Neal S. Beckford

University Clinical Health

UT Otolaryngology

7675 Wolf River Cir, Ste 202

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-737-3021

John R. Emmett

Shea Ear Clinic

6133 Poplar Pike

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-761-9720

Marion Boyd Gillespie

UT Methodist Physicians – Head & Neck Surgery

1325 Eastmoreland Ave, Ste 260

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-6051

Dean A. Klug

Mid-South Ear, Nose & Throat

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-5300

John Touliatos

Mid-South Ear, Nose & Throat

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38123

Phone: 901-755-5300

Pathology

Mahul B. Amin

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

930 Madison Ave, Ste 531

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-448-7020

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

D. Betty Lew

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Allergy and Immunology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Claudette J. Shephard

UT Regional One Physicians

OB/GYN Clinic Outpatient Center,3rd Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-515-3800

Pediatric Cardiology

John Lynn Jefferies

UT Methodist Physicians – Cardiology

1211 Union Ave, Ste 965

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-435-8550

Jeffrey A. Towbin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Cardiology Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Benjamin Rush Waller

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Cardiology Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8817

Pediatric Critical Care

Mark C. Bugnitz

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Critical Care

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6756

Samir Shah

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Critical Care

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6303

Stephanie Ann Storgion

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Critical Care

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6303

Pediatric Endocrinology

Ramin Alemzadeh

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Alan J. Cohen

The Endocrine Clinic

5659 S Rex Rd

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-763-3636

Alicia Diaz-Thomas

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dennis D. Black

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8821

Mark R. Corkins

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

John K. Eshun

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8821

Linda F. Lazar

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8821

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Wayne L. Furman

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Amar Gajjar

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Division of Neuro-Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Daniel Michael Green

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-5915

Jane Hankins

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2051

Melissa Hudson

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3445

Hiroto Inaba

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3606

Sima Jeha

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Daniel A. Mulrooney

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3658

Ellis Neufeld

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 888-226-4343

Alberto S. Pappo

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-6765

Ching-Hon Pui

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Ulrike M. Reiss

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Hematology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Raul C. Ribeiro

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-7573

John T. Sandlund

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Victor M. Santana

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Elisabeth E. Adderson

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Infectious Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Sandra Arnold

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Infectious Disease Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

John P. Devincenzo

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Infectious Disease Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Patricia M. Flynn

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Infectious Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Aditya Gaur

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Infectious Diseases

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Jonathan A. McCullers

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Infectious Disease

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6399

Pediatric Nephrology

John J. Bissler

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Margaret Colleen Hastings

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8822

Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Frederick Boop

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7700

Paul Klimo

Semmes Murphey Clinic

6325 Humphreys Blvd

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-522-7722

Pediatric Neuroradiology

Asim F. Choudhri

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6938

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Mary Ellen Hoehn

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 400

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-287-7337

Natalie C. Kerr

Hamilton Eye Institute

930 Madison Ave, Ste 400

Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

James H. Beaty

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3125

William C. Warner, Jr.

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics

1400 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-759-3111

Pediatric Otolaryngology

Jerome W. Thompson

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

ENT Clinic Outpatient Center, Ste G10

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-4400

Pediatric Pulmonology

Robert A. Schoumacher

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Pulmonology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Pediatric Radiation Oncology

Matthew James Krasin

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Radiation Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-6146

Thomas Merchant

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Radiation Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Pediatric Radiology

Thomas F. Boulden

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6041

Harris L. Cohen

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6938

David Alan Howard

Memphis Radiological

7695 Poplar Pike

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-685-2696

Sue C. Kaste

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Diagnostic Imaging

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

M. Beth McCarville

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Diagnostic Imaging

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-2399

Stephen F. Miller

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6041

Louis S. Parvey

Diagnostic Imaging

6401 Poplar Ave, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-387-2340

Pediatric Rheumatology

Linda K. Myers

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Rheumatology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8824

Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Sleep Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Pediatric Specialist/Abused Children

Karen L. Lakin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Pediatric Specialist/Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine

Scott M. Kloek

Memphis Children’s Clinic

Medical Bldg B, Ste 230

7705 Poplar Ave

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-2400

Pediatric Specialist/Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy

UT Regional One Physicians

Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center

877 Jefferson Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-7366

Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, Epilepsy

James W. Wheless

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Division of Pediatric Neurology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-866-8823

Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, General

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Sleep Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, Sleep Medicine

Merrill S. Wise III

Methodist Sleep Disorders Center

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-683-0044

Pediatric Specialist/Pediatric Metabolic Diseases

Jewell C. Ward

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Genetics Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6472

Pediatric Surgery

Andrew M. Davidoff

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Surgery

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-4055

Max R. Langham, Jr.

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

Surgery Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6820

Pediatrics/General

Susan M. Aguillard

Pediatrics East

8110 Walnut Run Rd

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-757-3535

H. Gail Beeman

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Kristen A. Bettin

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-7337

Aimee Christian

Memphis Pediatrics

1255 S Germantown Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-432-1591

Lelon O. Edwards

Pediatrics East

2004 Exeter Rd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-757-3535

Robert M. Eiseman

920 Estate Dr, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

Noel K. Frizzell

Pediatric Consultants

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-523-2945

Timothy G. Gillespie

Memphis Children’s Clinic

1129 Hale Rd

Memphis, TN 38116

Phone: 901-396-0390

Ara James Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Gina R. Hanissian

Hanissian Healthcare

574 Greentree Cove, Ste 101

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-853-2021

Charles Christopher Hanson

Laurelwood Pediatrics

5050 Sanderlin Ave

Memphis, TN 38117

Phone: 901-683-9371

Marion E. Hare

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl

51 N Dunlap St

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-866-8815

Burton Hayes

UT Methodist Physicians – Primary Care

57 Germantown Ct, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38018

Phone: 901-758-7888

Wayland J. Hayes III

Pediatrics East

120 Crescent Dr

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-757-3535

Valerie P. Jameson

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists

General Pediatrics Clinic

777 Washington Ave, Ste P110

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-287-6292

Scott M. Kloek

Memphis Children’s Clinic

Medical Bldg B, Ste 230

7705 Poplar Ave

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-755-2400

Joel Kronenberg

920 Estate Dr, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

Michael Lacy

Memphis Children’s Clinic

7672 Airways Blvd

Southaven, MS 38671

Phone: 662-349-2555

Amanda Mefford

Memphis Children’s Clinic

6615 Kirby Center Cove

Memphis, TN 38115

Phone: 901-795-9193

Keith B. Owen

Pediatrics East

8025 Stage Hills Blvd

Bartlett, TN 38133

Phone: 901-757-3535

Robert W. Riikola

Memphis Children’s Clinic

7672 Airways Blvd

Southaven, MS 38671

Phone: 662-349-2555

Willie Tsiu

920 Estate Dr, Ste 3

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-767-3620

A. Graham Warr

The Light Clinic

7715 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-328-6031

Plastic Surgery

R. Louis Adams

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

George L. Burruss

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

R. Gregory Chandler

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

William L. Hickerson

Firefighters Regional Burn Center

890 Madison Ave, Ste TG032

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-2579

Allen Holt Hughes

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

Edward Andrew Luce

University Clinical Health

University Plastic Surgeons

1068 Cresthaven Rd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-866-8525

Karen Quigley

The Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis

80 Humphreys Center Dr, Ste 100

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-761-9030

Robert D. Wallace

University Clinical Health

University Plastic Surgeons

1068 Cresthaven Rd, Ste 500

Memphis, TN 38119

Phone: 901-866-8525

Psychiatry

Dolores DiGaetano

Chamberlin Clinic

8316 Macon Terrace, Ste 103

Cordova, TN 38018

Phone: 901-757-0568

Pulmonary Medicine

Richard Boswell

Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists

5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 800

Memphis, TN 38157

Phone: 901-276-2662

Radiology

David Buechner

Memphis Radiological

7695 Poplar Pike

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-683-1890

Harris L. Cohen

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6938

George Gallimore

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Evelyn W. Gayden

Baptist Women’s Health Center

Womens Diagnostic Group

50 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 23

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-226-0810

Robert E. Gold

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

848 Adams Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-287-6963

James E. Machin

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Robert J. Optican

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Zoltan Patay

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Department of Diagnostic Imaging

262 Danny Thomas Pl

Memphis, TN 38105

Phone: 901-595-3300

Joseph C. Sullivan

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Allen K. Tonkin

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Heidi R. Umphrey

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

7600 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 200

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-747-1000

Dexter H. Witte

Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics

6305 Humphreys Blvd, Ste 205

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-1000

Sleep Medicine

Robert W. Schriner

Memphis Lung Physicians

1500 W Poplar Ave, Ste 309

Collierville, TN 38017

Phone: 901-850-1170

Surgery

Martin A. Croce

UT Regional One Physicians

Elvis Presley Trauma Center

877 Jefferson Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-448-8140

Timothy C. Fabian

UT Regional One Physicians

Surgery Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl

880 Madison Ave

Memphis, TN 38103

Phone: 901-545-6969

Richard E. Fine

Margaret West Comprehensive Breast Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-516-4300

F. Elizabeth Pritchard

UT Methodist Physicians – Surgical Oncology

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 280

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-609-3520

Surgical Oncology

Martin D. Fleming

UT Methodist Physicians – Surgical Oncology

West Cancer Center

7945 Wolf River Blvd, Ste 280

Germantown, TN 38138

Phone: 901-609-3520

David Shibata

UT Methodist Physicians – Surgical Oncology

West Cancer Center

1211 Union St, Ste 300

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-609-3520

Thoracic Surgery

H. Edward Garrett, Jr.

Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-3066

Vascular Surgery

Hugh Francis III

Memphis Surgery Associates

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 404

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-726-1056

H. Edward Garrett, Jr.

Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic

6029 Walnut Grove Rd, Ste 401

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-747-3066

Michael J. Rohrer

UT Methodist Physicians – Vascular Surgery

1325 Eastmoreland Ave, Ste 310

Memphis, TN 38104

Phone: 901-272-6010

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Editorial Opinion

A Seasonal Summing-Up for Memphis and Shelby County

As Memphis and Shelby County headed into the heart of the holiday season, the two entities and their resident populations had much to rejoice about and many serious concerns as well.

For purposes of contrast, merely consider the rather different facts reflected in the respective circumstances of the two major local legislative bodies — the Memphis City Council and the Shelby County Commission.

It may be that the council is able to resolve the issue of filling three vacancies this week. Or maybe not. The council will need to produce a quorum even to begin untangling the circumstances of last week’s deadlocked vote to fill just one of the seats, and acquiring a quorum has been made tougher by the resignation of two council members who were present and voting prior to last week.

Bill Lee

Those two members — Janis Fullilove and Edmund Ford Jr. — are two of the trio of members who were elected to Shelby County positions on August 2nd but deigned not to resign their council seats in a timely manner that would have allowed their positions to be filled by the vote of constituents on the November ballot. The third member of this threesome — Bill Morrison — had resigned earlier by a week.

It is uncertain the degree to which the foot-dragging threesome held on to their seats for personal reasons versus retaining them on the advice, implicit or explicit, to do so by their remaining colleagues, whose demonstrated passion for replacing departed collegues by the appointment process is equaled only by their fecklessness in actually delivering on the appointments.

In any case, if the deadlock holds, the obvious solution is to call for an election, which should have been done in the first place. Only this time, the taxpayers will be footing some extra expense.

Over on the county commission, things seem a little more Christmas-y. Though there are conspicously different political points of view on display there (of the liberal-vs.-conservative sort), so far they have not created a divide. Instead, there has been a measure of peace, harmony, and compromise. The most obvious difference between the version of county government elected on August 2nd and the one preceding it is that there is no schism between the executive and legislative branches, as there was in the long-running power struggle between the former commission and then Mayor Mark Luttrell.

The current county mayor, Lee Harris, and the new commission, led by chairman Van Turner, have evinced an obvious determination to agree on as many issues as possible, and numerous disagreements of the past have been resolved, resulting in a common understanding on such issues as independent legal representation for the commission and an alignment of views on the conduct of legal action to offset the ravages of opioid distributors.

At the state level, things are a tad uncertain as of yet. While we welcome the positive aura emanating from Republican Governor-elect Bill Lee, we are disappointed by his expressed support for voucher legislation (a specter that we thought had been abandoned by the General Assembly) and his reluctance to see the good sense of long-overdue Medicaid expansion.

Even so, we’ll try to be optimistic. Happy Holidays!

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Editorial Opinion

Vote No on All Three November Election Referenda

We have said all this before, but if there is one maxim regarding the process of communication worth trusting, it is that nothing benefits a message like repetition. This is as valid about falsehoods as it is about truths. Witness only the role of rote in the command psychology of ruling entities, whether fictional, as in George Orwell’s classic dystopian epic, 1984, or in reality, as in “Make America Great Again.”

It helps to repeat positive messages, too, and, while the Flyer has, from its beginning, held to a policy of non-endorsement of candidates at election time, we have made no secret of our attitude toward public policies that we deem of crucial importance to our readership.

Ed Ford

We have, for example, deplored the apparently organized reluctance of three Memphis City Council members, elected to other positions in Shelby County government on August 2nd, to resign their council seats so as to permit their constituents, via a call for special election, to have a direct voice in their replacement. The train has left the station on that one — thanks to inaction from the newly installed Probate Court clerk Bill Morrison, Juvenile Court clerk Janis Fullilove, and Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. — leaving it to the other 10 members of the council, not the electorate, to choose their successors.

Actually, in one case there may be a silver lining of sorts. The chairman of the Shelby County Commission, Van Turner, has hit upon the expedient of asking Commissioner/Councilman Ford to serve as a kind of liaison between the two bodies for the next several weeks, and Ford, whose abilities we do not doubt, has apparently tackled the obligation with some industry and in good faith, helping to arrange agreed-upon solutions to issues of joint city/county jurisdiction. In any case, the matter is beyond our control.

We can be somewhat more pro-active about three issues on the November 6th ballot, advising that, if enacted, they would fill a void somewhere between the mischievous and the venal. We refer to three referenda before city voters — one being a re-vote on the process called Ranked Choice Voting (alternately: Instant Runoff Voting); another eliminating runoff voting altogether; and a third, establishing term limits for the council and mayor at three four-year terms, in lieu of the current two-term limit.

All three, we think, either fail to advance the public interest, refute the public will, or are designed to be incumbent-friendly in a way that discourages free choice by the electorate. Or all of the above. The people have already voted, and by resounding margins, to establish Ranked Choice Voting (which eliminates the need for runoffs but allows for a rational and fair way to designate election winners in such cases), and the County Election Administrator has already set up the machinery for RCV in the 2019 city election. And a previous referendum limiting council members to two terms passed handily; the proposed referendum would actually expand council terms.

A “no” vote on all three referenda is the only way to affirm the freely offered judgment of the electorate, already rendered.

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Editorial Opinion

Attack Ads Insult Voters’ Intelligence

One of the object lessons of the late political-primary season was the realization that you can dumb down political messages to the point that even the dimmest of voters is too smart to be hoodwinked.

The perfect example was the GOP gubernatorial primary, when two multi-millionaires, Diane Black and Randy Boyd, decided to blow their own money and that of their deep-pocketed donors on a negative-ad battle in which Black essentially tried to convince the Tennessee electorate that all the state needed was to trust in such national issues as she and Donald Trump favored — you know, like a wall on the Southern U.S. border and tax breaks for the wealthy — and that Boyd was a stinker because he wasn’t properly zealous about such things.

Boyd — who, on his record as a cabinet member in the Haslam adminstration, was actually a moderate, thoughtful social engineer of sorts — countered with ads suggesting that he was as far to the right as Black was and that he worried himself sick about welfare chiselers and sneaky immigrants. And he did, too, favor the wall and had actually gone to the border to pose for pictures there. He insisted that he loved Trump as much as Black did. Back and forth, they went, tearing each other down.

Meanwhile, Bill Lee, an almost overlooked third-place candidate for much of the way, kept gaining, mainly on the basis of a pleasant personality and a reluctance to play the dozens with the other two. He won the primary.

Tennessee is now getting a partial rerun of the embarrassing Black-Boyd antics in the race for the U.S. Senate between Republican Marsha Blackburn and Democrat Phil Bredesen. The mischief here has been pretty much one-sided. Blackburn and the National Republican Senate committee — and whoever else has been thinking this stuff up — have been laboring hard to make Bredesen — a middle-of-the-roader who was so conservative as governor that he made his GOP predecessor Don Sundquist look like a Democrat — appear to be a crazed tax-and-spend liberal.

One Blackburn ad has Trump himself saying such things about Bredesen, who has promised, reasonably enough, to support such actions by the president as might seem good for Tennessee. Another ad states that Bredesen wildly hiked up state taxes (actually, no, he really didn’t) and, worse, enjoyed himself at taxpayers’ expense by gussying up the governor’s mansion, which, as Bredesen notes correctly, he never even lived in as governor.

If Bredesen has wisely chosen, for the most part, not to reciprocate, the Democratic National Committee seems to have fallen into the trap of responding to Blackburn’s bait with its own ad claiming that she’s the one who’s really been fleecing the taxpayers by excessive globe-trotting and constantly gadding about on the public dime.

Stop it, everybody. You’re trivializing the democratic process, turning it into a preposterous flame war. Stick to the issues, please. There are real ones, after all, and, honestly, we can tell the difference between the stuff some of you are doing and shinola.

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Memphis EDGE is in Flux

Last week saw the first meeting of a blue-ribbon local board charged with reviewing the current status of the Memphis area’s economic development in general and the efforts toward that end of EDGE (Economic Deveopment and Growth Engine) in particular.

EDGE was created some years ago as a joint city/county enterprise that could coordinate local efforts to solicit new business and industry and buttress those enterprises already here. The idea was to get beyond parochial approaches to development, as well as to stifle infighting and competition between local governments and between business groups.

Though EDGE would seem to have a diligent board and a competent staff, an aura of general dissatisfaction with its accomplishments has settled over the Greater Memphis economic community. Neighbor states and adjacent jurisdictions seem to be having their way with business and industrial newcomers and getting first dibs on many of them. There is brewing controversy over whether EDGE or the Chamber of Commerce should take the lead in selling the Memphis area.

Sentiment is growing on the Memphis City Council favoring the re-establishment of an independent Industrial Development Board, precisely the kind of would-be recruitment vehicle that EDGE was designed to supercede.

As always, various citizens grumble over what they see as over-reliance on PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) arrangements, which, these critics contend, dissipate the tax base of local government and starve necessary human services of the funds they need. And, even as the role of EDGE in the scheme of things is under question, local governments’ dissatisfaction with the lack of control and even the amount of input available to them has grown.

As a case in point, the Shelby County Commission has considered of late various means of amending the lines of authority within the board, increasing the number and voting power within it of members from the commission and the city council, whose involvement has been more or less of the token variety. Most recently, a resolution to strip the overall oversight of the EDGE staff from the mayors of Memphis and Shelby County or to moderate their exclusivity, assigning significant oversight to the board, including matters of hiring and firing, was introduced. Though it was not acted upon before the commissioners elected four years ago had to yield to a newly elected commission, the proposal may surface again in some form.

Meanwhile, outgoing commission chair Heidi Shafer performed what can only be regarded as a public service by appointing the aforementioned task force to look into possible changes in the status of EDGE (or presumably a successor body). For the record, that task force consists of four returning members of the county commission — Willie Brooks, Van Turner, Reginald Milton, and Eddie Jones — and six inviduals of unquestioned capability in matters relating to the local economy — Ron Belz, Jack Sammons, Cary Vaughn, Calvin Anderson, Al Bright, Les Binkley, and Carolyn Hardy.

At their first meeting, the task force members resolved to consult extensively with other interested parties and to undertake the researches that will hopefully underpin necessary change. We wish them luck.

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MPD Surveillance of Law-abiding Activists is a Bridge Too Far

As we go to press, the ACLU’s lawsuit has begun against the city of Memphis for allegedly breaking a 1978 consent decree forbidding it to engage in “political intelligence” against local activists.

Scratch “allegedly.” The presiding jurist, U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla, has already declared the city to be in violation of the decree, but has allowed the lawsuit to go forward to determine the legal standing of the ACLU as a plaintiff organization, to assess the need for sanctions, and presumably for other undisclosed reasons.

Surely one of those reasons is the simple one, of exposure — notaby, of the undercover methods used by the Memphis Police Department, especially of its disingenuously named “homeland security” unit.

Except for the president and his diehard base, most Americans are at least somewhat familiar with the now-verified activities of Russian hackers and provocateurs during the presidential campaign of 2016, and of their unscrupulous exploitation of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to misdirect and agitate and stir up controversy — as well as simply to confuse and entrap people involved in perfectly legal political activity.

Well, Guccifer 2.0 and his Russian comrades had nothing on ol’ “Bob Smith” of Memphis, who until just a month or so ago, when, pre-trial, he packed up his social media accounts, could disorient and dissemble with the best of them online.

As ACLU lawyer Mandy Strickland Floyd revealed with her patient questioning of Smith (or the man who pretended to be Smith, Sgt. Timothy Reynolds of the MPD), he not only dabbled in the black arts of online spy-craft, he did so often by pretending to be a “person of color,” sympathetic with the declared aims of whatever left-of-center activist group he was targeting. Or right-of-center, to be fair.

Beginning his career as a law-enforcement troll in 2008, “Smith” was an equal-opportunity deceiver. He could, if circumstances seemed to warrant it, ingratiate himself by insinuating sympathy for the desecrated fame of Nathan Bedford Forrest in an early stage of the local statue controversy, morphing into an advocate for statue removal as he Facebook-friended Take ‘Em Down activists like Paul Garner and newly elected County Commissioner Tami Sawyer and followed the likes of Thaddeus Matthews, or by posing as a Bernie man as he heaped abuse in late 2015 on “Killary,” or by complaining in a public post about the cost of entitlements as he nosed under the tent of Tea Partiers.

Reynolds and his cohorts in and out of law enforcement conducted ample surveillance as well, infiltrating and otherwise keeping tabs on activist groups of all kinds — from Save the Greensward to a North Memphis Voter Registration meeting to anything connected with Black Lives Matter.

The time of the bridge seizure in mid-July 2016 was a busy time for the homeland security unit and other MPD adjuncts, all of whom saw a threat necessitating keeping close watch over bodies of people, whether large or small, whether meeting in public or on private property.

   Judge McCalla will have to decide the proper adjudication for all this official vigilance. We don’t envy him, but routine police surveillance of law-abiding civil activists is a bridge that shouldn’t be crossed.

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Tribunes of the People

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Let’s get one thing straight: There is such a thing as “fake news,” but 1) it isn’t what Donald Trump says it is; and 2) his claim that he invented the term is itself a bit of fake news.

The term came into being during the presidential campaign of 2016 as a description of misinformation that explicitly favored Trump. The Internet-circulated story that Hillary Clinton was channeling captive juveniles to pedophiles from the bowels of a Washington, D.C., pizza joint was a case in point. That obvious canard, one that ultimately would compel a “self-investigating” gunman to shoot up a harmless pizzeria, was the kind of patently false story that the term “fake news” was first coined to describe.

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We now know that thousands of more tales like that, some halfway plausible, others from halfway round a full moon, were created by Russia to poison social media and the traditional media during the presidential race, as part of the “active measures” campaign undertaken by Vladimir Putin’s intelligence services to undermine Clinton’s chances of victory.

The term “fake news” (or, more accurately, FAKE NEWS!) was first co-opted by Trump in January 2017, shortly before his inauguration, when the now famous Steele “dossier,” containing a compilaton of opposition research into his background, gained sudden currency. Trump first used the term against CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who at a press conference attempted to ask the president-elect about the just revealed document.

“No, you’re fake news!” Trump countered, borrowing an existent term in declining to recognize Acosta or his network, and simultaneously disparaging a dossier, much of which has subsequently proved out.

Thereafter, Trump has habitually employed the purloined term to represent anything that, as Wikipedia would put it, was “negative news about himself,” or, more simply, “accurate news” that he didn’t like. 

Meanwhile, Trump himself became the leading practitioner of fake news, beginning with ordering his press secretary to describe his Inauguration Day crowd as the biggest in history, and continuing with multiple lies per day throughout his presidency to date.

In the process, America’s Bizarro President has managed to create a shadow universe, one whose inversions of reality would put Orwell to shame. In Trump’s world, the free media have morphed into “the enemy of the people,” a phrase made famous in the title of a play, An Enemy of the People, by Norwegian realist Henrik Ibsen. In Ibsen’s drama, a scientifically minded citizen, Dr. Stockman, discovers that toxins are poisoning his town’s public baths and attempts to warn the population, thereby angering the local political establishment, which retaliates by branding the would-be whistleblower as “an enemy of the people.”  

In the play, Stockman heroically remains determined to resist the unfair attacks, remaining loyal to the truth. In the reality show that is Donald Trump’s America, we of the free media, the tribunes of the people, can and must aspire to be equally steadfast.

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The Lessons of Watergate

It was some 44 years ago, in the dog days of a humid summer, when the members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee met to consider articles of impeachment against the president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon. This was at a late point in the ever worsening saga that had begun with a criminal break-in of the opposition Democrats’ election headquarters, and, while hard and fast evidence of Nixon’s guilt  — the so-called “smoking gun” — was not yet in hand, the president’s culpability in the series of high crimes and misdemeanors we now call Watergate had long since become obvious.

There was plenty of smoke, enough of it that several Republican members of the Judiciary Committee would forgo their partisan loyalties and join Democratic members in voting for one or more of the impeachment articles presented. But there were other GOP committee members who could not bring themselves to do so. One of them, a Pennsylvania congressman named Charles W. Sandman, became famous (or notorious) because of his unstinting defense of Nixon during the televised Judiciary hearings and his insistence that all the evidence aggregated thus far had been circumstantial.

“Specificity!” Sandman thundered over and over, making the point that even the crime of jaywalking required some physical and irrefutable proof to justify prosecution.

The odds against the president’s survival in office were already tilted irrevocably against Nixon — Sandman himself had conceded that 37 committee votes, a clear majority, were already committed to impeachment — and yet he and a few other Republican loyalists persisted in their defense. There was something pathetic, yet oddly admirable, about their determination to go down with the ship.

And go down they did. The committee voted its judgment, and only days later, one of the president’s surreptitiously recorded tapes surfaced publicly, and all the world heard Nixon strategize out loud about trying to subvert the FBI and the Justice Department to quell an investigation of the break-in at the Watergate.

For his pains, Sandman, who had been his party’s nominee for governor of Pennsylvania only the year before, was defeated for re-election to Congress that fall, along with other unregenerate loyalists.

The moral of that story for today’s congressional Republicans is obvious: Most of them continue to ignore  the meaning of the ever multiplying facts that seem clearly to indicate improper collusion by the Trump campaign with Vladimir Putin’s Russian government during the 2016 presidential campaign and to obstruct an investigation afterward. Demanding uncontrovertible evidence, they parrot President Trump’s mantra of “No collusion!” Presumably, they equate a forthright recognition of Trump’s guilt with the specter of their own potential defeat at the polls.

But, like Sandman, they’ve got it backwards. It was a refusal to acknowledge plain truth and a reluctance to put country before party that doomed Sandman and the others whose political careers were wrecked or ended by Watergate. Most of the Republicans who owned up to the reality of Nixon’s misprisions were able to survive; most of those who could not do so, like Sandman, were in short order eliminated from public life.

It’s not a Sophie’s Choice. Admitting the obvious is the best way Republicans can save themselves and their party.