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Table of Contents: May 2008

On the River

Jonathan Lindberg: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Joe Saino: Monitoring Memphis Non-Profits

J. Ward Moorehouse: On the Stage

Judith’s Picks

Judith Conroy

Lead Article

Jonathan Lindberg: The Politics of Locality: How Shelby County could pose a problem for Marsha Blackburn

Feature Articles

Michael Roy Hollihan: Juneteenth: Can a festival bring racial unity to Memphis?

Op-Ed: Mike Ritz: Land Use in Big Shelby

Edward F. Williams III: Moss Hall

Ties That Bind

Dr. David Patterson: The Many Faces of Holocaust Denial

On the Shelf

Jason Middlekauff: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever

On the Money

Chuck Bates: Solving the Violence Problem in our Community Part II