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Strickland's comments about the county government alternative to juvenile detention come after District Attorney Amy Weirich called attention to the problems during a taping last week of "Behind The Headlines."
Speaking at the Frayser Exchange Club, Strickland also said the city will step up its efforts toward "opportunity youth" and talked of the coming of expanded pre-kindergarten that he described as "a whole new mindset" starting this fall.
The roundup of line items with relatively small amounts of money comes as the Strickland administration offers its first details of what the coming city budget proposal will include in a "tight" budget season at City Hall.
The unspoken sentiment behind objections to relaxing residency rules appears to be the prospect that white officers from small towns in North Mississippi, West Tennessee and Eastern Arkansas would be policing unfamiliar territory in North Memphis, South Memphis and Orange Mound.
Early voting opens Wednesday in Shelby County in the Tennessee presidential primaries.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland is pushing passage of two bills designed to fill a growing hole in the city’s budget with $12 million in sales tax revenue.
His defenders hail Nathan Bedford Forrest's 'great commander' status. But at Fort Pillow, Forrest gained temporary possession of a meaningless fort while making things worse for the Confederate military effort everywhere.
The city's response to a backlog in picking up leaves reveals just how politically volatile the city's most basic service can be -- and has been -- for decades.
The recent formal opening of the local U.S. Census office came as new immigration restrictions are finding a place in presidential campaign rhetoric.
State legislators and the Memphis and Shelby County mayors are among elected officials who have endorsed a presidential candidate and plan to campaign for their choice.
The dispute involves the city's effort to catch up on a backlog of autumn leaves that include weekend work and the use of private contractors to clear the backlog by the end of the month.
Kansas City, Missouri, could soon be the first major city to offer free bus service. But Memphis isn't there yet.
The court fight over Memphis City Hall’s plan to cut off sewage treatment for Horn Lake and Southaven, Mississippi, in 2023 is so far playing out on both sides of the state line.
Republican Charlotte Bergmann, who is seeking to once again challenge Democratic Cong. Steven Cohen this election year, kicked off her campaign this weekend at a gun-shooting range. Other contenders in other primary races on the August 6 ballot are making their moves as well.
The second-term slate of 13 Jim Strickland administration directors and chiefs drew some resistance from several council members in committee sessions Tuesday at City Hall. The decision to delay the vote on the slate for two weeks saw some of the new council members on different sides of the question at their first council meeting.
The first City Council meeting of 2020 next week will include a review of the two new appointees and 13 returning division directors and chiefs.
Good morning; it’s Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. Today marks the beginning of Hoopfest Memphis, which includes 13 high school basketball games and used to be called the Penny Hardaway Classic.
The Memphis mayor said the new corp would start with 25 young adults picking up litter part-time for $12 an hour as they work toward high school diplomas and college degrees.
The Memphis mayor promised details at his Wednesday oath of office ceremony on a city effort aimed at "opportunity youth" between the ages of 16 and 24.
Special counsel Alan Crone will soon take his leave from Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration. As Strickland starts his second and last term, Crone, a long-time friend, will return full-time to his own law practice.
Since March 2018, the City of Memphis has been saying it intends to end the 1970s-era agreement to treat wastewater in a North Mississippi sewer district that predates the incorporation of Southaven.
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office will begin the New Year patrolling areas that have been de-annexed from Memphis.
Analysis of what is ahead for second-term Mayor Jim Strickland and a City Council that is a mix of second-termers, new members and those in between after an election year that delivered some mandates.