The Early Word: Should the Tigers stay or go? Plus, Mike Cody, remembered
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In other news today, Downtown’s Center City Revenue Finance Corp. will consider property-tax incentives today for the renovation of a Main Street Mall building and for new apartments near the Crosstown Mound. And tonight, Rhodes College kicks off its Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival. Don’t speak French? No worries; the films will have English subtitles.
The Pac-12 needs to add at least two more football programs to maintain full-fledged conference status, and rumor has it the conference is interested in the Memphis Tigers. Plenty of Tigers fans would love to see the team leave the American Athletic Conference, but is the Pac-12 — a power league in name only — the place to go? That depends on whom you ask. Our own Tim Buckley gives more reasons than the number of teams in the Pac-12 as to why the Tigers should stay in the AAC. But Geoff Calkins begs to differ.
“Mike [Cody] was a lion, not just in courage and strength, but in his views and values,” said Bill Craddock, friend of Mike Cody. Cody, who practiced law at Burch Porter & Johnson since 1961, died on Sunday at age 88. Much of his work centered on racial reconciliation, including in the case regarding Martin Luther King’s final march in Memphis. And he served as a U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, as a state’s Attorney General, as a Memphis City Council member and in many other positions.
Plus, Memphis police killed a carjacking suspect on Monday, the alleged Railgarten shooter is back in jail and 100 N. Main is selling for much less.
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Bianca Phillips
Bianca Phillips is a Northeast Arkansas native and longtime Memphian who’s worked in local journalism and PR for more than 20 years. In her days as a reporter, she covered everything from local government and crime to LGBTQ issues and the arts. She’s the author of “Cookin Crunk: Eatin’ Vegan in the Dirty South,” a cookbook of vegan Southern recipes.
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