Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


COVID-19 testing problems: Memphis officials now discourage some people from getting tests

The Commercial Appeal

COVID-19 testing sites in the Memphis area have become so overwhelmed that local officials on Tuesday discouraged people from getting tests unless they fit into a high-priority category.  


Will fans be allowed at Memphis 901 FC home matches this year?

The Commercial Appeal

Fans could be allowed at Memphis 901 FC home matches this season, club president Craig Unger said Tuesday. While a final decision has not been made, he said the team had submitted a proposal to the Shelby County Health Department that was “well received.”


New ICE guidelines for international students concern Memphis universities, but a mix of class offerings sustain their visas 

The Commercial Appeal

Updated guidelines from Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaves international students in Memphis and across the nation with a difficult choice — take classes in person while COVID-19 cases continue to rise or return to the last country they lived in before the U.S. and take online courses.


New ICE guidelines for international students concern Memphis universities, but a mix of class offerings sustain their visas

The Commercial Appeal

Updated guidelines from Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaves international students in Memphis and across the nation with a difficult choice — take classes in person while COVID-19 cases continue to rise or return to the last country they lived in before the U.S. and take online courses.


Childhood immunizations have dropped during COVID-19. Will it matter as schools reopen?

The Commercial Appeal

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on across the country, medical and public health experts have voiced concerns that routine medical care — including childhood immunizations — have dropped off in the past several months.  


Opinion: Challenges with COVID-19 could bring transformational change, improve human health

The Commercial Appeal

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on human health worldwide. While scientific communities and clinicians are engaged in research to develop a vaccine for the virus and are repurposing existing antiviral drugs to treat it, prospects for either are not available now.  


Weathersbee: Should black violence spawn more outrage than police killings? One feeds the other

The Commercial Appeal

So, let’s talk about outrage. Some of my readers, as well as numerous keyboard warriors, have been questioning whether the activists who’ve been protesting Derek Chauvin’s slaying of George Floyd on camera are as outraged over the violence plaguing African-American communities. They are.


What will school look like this fall? Task forces are planning for several scenarios

The Commercial Appeal

The first day of school in August 2019 would flunk 2020’s course on social distancing: teachers and students high-fiving, packed close and bent down to elementary schooler eye level, sharing big smiles and welcoming students back to the classroom before an assembly in the cafeteria where students barely left 6 inches of space between one… Read More