Live blog: Brown, Boyd seem headed toward general election in clerk race
Democrat Joe Brown and Republican Paul Boyd are leading the way in the General Sessions Court Clerk primaries.
Bill Dries
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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March 2020
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City of Memphis Strickland wants to use sales tax overage for police and fire retention measures
Strickland told city council members Tuesday that the referendum isn't binding on the city and that most voters would support such a use of extra revenue beyond a restoration of benefits cut by the city six years ago. The idea is still in the talking stage, with Strickland to take his plan to the council in April when he presents his city budget proposal.
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Elections Brown and Boyd to meet in August in only countywide race of election year
While the fight was for second place in the Democratic primary field of 13, Joe Brown emerged the victor in his second election in a year. He faces Republican Paul Boyd, upset in a Probate Court re-election bid two years ago in the August county general election.
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Elections Biden takes state and Shelby County in strong showing
Biden won big in the county and across the state with Bloomberg betting big on Super Tuesday as his entry point to the Democratic nomination. Bloomberg's early organization in Memphis proved no match for Biden's post-South Carolina momentum.
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Elections Super Tuesday follows pattern: Low turnout compared to general election
Memphians likely got their closest view of the presidential campaigns in the lead-up to Super Tuesday. The state isn't considered a battleground state in the general election.
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Metro Move to take city residency referendum off ballot fails again
After coming up short in council committee two weeks ago, a move to take a referendum on residency for police and firefighters off the November ballot died Tuesday, March 3, with a full city council vote. -
Elections Observations from a presidential campaign stop
Presidential campaign culture has some rules and habits that change over time and as technology changes. Here are a few observed locally in the campaign to Super Tuesday.
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City of Memphis Law banning drivers’ cell phones cruising toward Memphis
The two city measures reflect larger debates about criminal justice reform and the increasing use of cameras in public settings.
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Podcasts Politics Podcast: Beyond Super Tuesday
Shelby County Democratic Party chair Michael Harris and vice chair Sarah Beth Larson discuss what Super Tuesday says about Democrats locally.
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Elections Local Democratic Party chairman questions Bloomberg’s message
Michael Harris and party Democratic Party Vice Chair Sarah Beth Larson also talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about Saturday’s local Democratic convention, the first of two steps to select delegates to this summer's Democratic National Convention.
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City of Memphis Comptroller of currency defends rewrite of anti-redlining act during Beale forum
Joseph Otting said the Community Reinvestment Act is overdue for revisions that reflect 21st century banking. But some of those at the Memphis forum were skeptical that it would increase bank investment in low-income areas given other changes on other fronts from the Trump administration.
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Elections Bernie-Biden partisans gather for round one of delegate selection
The countywide Democratic party convention Saturday at Kirby High School is the first of two steps in selecting delegates to this summer's Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
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City of Memphis City Council: Grants process to remain unchanged ... for now
For now, the city council will keep its ground rules for dispensing $2.6 million in grant money at $200,000 per council member. But the council continues to battle what is a longer line of organizations seeking a limited amount of money.
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Metro Strickland joins Biden camp
Mayor Jim Strickland is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential race. -
City of Memphis City summer jobs programs looks for donors to fund waiting list
The city's Office of Youth Services has 9,200 children and young adults who have signed up for the Youth Summer Experience Program. But the program now has 2,000 funded slots. The goal is to raise private money to expand, and it is proving difficult.
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Elections August ballot races start to fill out
With three weeks to the filing deadline, some incumbent state legislators still haven't pulled their petitions to seek new terms in Nashville and a few of those races are filling up with potential challengers.
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Business State basketball tournaments canceled for coronavirus
State basketball tournaments are latest cancellations with COVID-19.
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Coronavirus Coronavirus daily blog, March 13: Grizzlies to pay game-night employees
- Germantown cancels programming until end of March
- Bartlett changes municipal services
- Municipal school districts to close through March 27
- First Shelby County coronavirus patient released from hospital
- Weekend looms large for restaurateurs
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Health Care Coronavirus daily blog, March 9: Baptist patient improving
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