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Good morning, Memphis! It’s Tuesday, Oct. 7, and Memphis City Council members will hear from Memphis Police Department leaders about the latest crime numbers.
Blue light special: The Memphis Safe Task Force seems to be focused on traffic stops and stop-and-frisk policing.
But how are those arrests being tracked? The answer is, we don’t know.
County cash crunch fix: Every year, before property-tax revenues begin to flow into the county’s coffers, the government faces a cash-flow problem. Here’s what they’re doing to fix it.
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New guy at FedEx Freight: FedEx Corp. is spinning off its freight segment next summer, so it’s just hired another top exec.
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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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