There are 56 article(s) tagged Allan Wade:

• April 2022

  • City Council moves to hire energy consultant on MLGW-TVA issue

    Should we stay or should we go? The decision still lacks a dollar figure and relies on the MLGW board agreeing to let the council’s consultant get a look at the various proposals.

    By Bill Dries April 06, 2022

• March 2022

  • State bill on pipelines would not undo city ordinances, council told

    Council members withdrew a resolution Tuesday, March 22, opposing the bill in Nashville after amendments were made. The bill would still limit the council’s ability to regulate convenience stores with gas pumps. 

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Party lines, residency majority holds and a new code

    This edition of the council scorecard catches up to a council vote on President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, another chapter in the police residency debate and rewriting the city code of ordinances for the first time in 37 years.

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2022

• November 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: End of the pipeline and no gas on Broad

    The Council Scorecard looks at the split decision on the last two of the pipeline ordinances and the end of a delayed plan to add a gas station to a part of Binghampton that already has a lot of gas pumps.

    By Bill Dries November 22, 2021

  • Council approves pipeline ordinance that ‘covers the universe of potential routes’

    The Memphis City Council approved one pipeline ordinance but denied another that would have kept oil pipelines from locating within 1,500 feet of schools, churches and parks.

    By Bill Dries November 17, 2021

  • City redistricting process comes back to life

    A move to form an ad hoc redistricing group for more public participation on the front end of drawing new district lines was tabled by the council in October. The sponsor brought it back briefly Tuesday, Nov. 16, in committee discussions.

    By Bill Dries November 16, 2021

  • Final votes on two pipeline ordinances delayed amid protests

    The Memphis City Council will take up the pipeline ordinances in two weeks after legalese and other factors led to to raucous environment at City Hall.

    By Bill Dries November 02, 2021

• October 2021

  • An early look at Memphis City Council redistricting

    The new district lines will reflect a drop of 16,000 Memphians by the U.S. Census count and populations gains in three of the seven single-member City Council districts as well as drops in the head count in the other four districts. 

    By Bill Dries October 21, 2021

  • Redistricting hits snag as City Council debate continues

    The council tabled a move to put an ad hoc working group in place, similar to what the Shelby County Commission already has up and running. The delay came after a discussion about motives, snakes, the city’s method of redistricting and protecting incumbents.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2021

  • New pipeline restrictions modeled on city process for telecom access

    The City Council approved the pipeline right-of-way ordinance on the first of three votes Tuesday, Oct. 5. It covers the entire city, requiring a permitting process for any work done beneath or across city streets. 

    By Bill Dries October 05, 2021

• September 2021

  • City Council makes it more difficult to build pipelines near water wellheads

    The measure is one of three proposals to limit and require local government approval and regulation of new oil pipeline projects. It’s broader than the other two measures delayed Tuesday over lingering legal questions.

    By Bill Dries September 21, 2021

• May 2021

  • City Council, pipeline companies working out terms of truce

    On Tuesday, both sides in the pipeline dispute agreed to put their actions on hold until July.

    By Bill Dries May 04, 2021

• March 2021

  • Ford, Harris trade words over investigation into commission grant

    Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and a representative of County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. sparred Wednesday, March 24, over accusations that Ford violated the county charter with a 2019 grant and Harris’ involvement in the allegation. 

    By Bill Dries March 24, 2021

  • Rocky legal terrain lies between Byhalia pipeline positions and reality

    Opponents of the oil pipeline want to keep the dispute in local and state courts. But federal courts have helped to speed up the legal process for pipeline companies. Both approaches are in play behind a blossoming opposition movement that has linked arms with past environmental struggles in the city.

    Related story:

    Pipeline Players: Who's who in the controversy over the Byhalia Connection Pipeline

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2021

  • City Council comes out against Byhalia pipeline project

    Questions about opinions and litigation Tuesday in council committee turned into a rallying cry for some to join a legal fight in the name of the city’s underground water source.

    By Bill Dries March 16, 2021

• February 2021

  • Final drag racing ordinance votes delayed

    Legal questions prompt delay of consideration on three measures. 

    By Bill Dries February 23, 2021

• June 2020

  • City Council concerned about rise in COVID cases, could call early vote on mask requirement

    Council members expressed alarm at the rise in the daily COVID-19 case count locally and are prepared to call a special meeting Friday to enact a mask requirement in public places within Memphis. 

    By Bill Dries June 09, 2020

• April 2020

  • Wade role as $354 million MLGW bond co-counsel surfaces again

    The city council's attorney has been bond counsel on 17 of the 18 Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division bond issues over the past 28 years. The relationship is being brought up again as the utility's relationship with TVA is being examined. 

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2020

• September 2019

  • Legal questions cloud enforcement of state ban on cell phone driving

    The state law that outlaws holding or touching a cell phone while driving in Tennessee is probably enforceable by Memphis Police right now, according to the City Council’s attorney.

    By Bill Dries September 17, 2019

• August 2019

  • Dispute between Lausanne, neighborhood could move from courtroom to City Hall

    An ongoing dispute between Lausanne Collegiate School and its residential neighbors is headed to court but made a stop at the City Council along the way.

    By Bill Dries August 20, 2019

• July 2019

  • Graceland’s $75 million expansion moves forward

    The provisions put to rest nearly five months of changing terms, distrust and behind the scenes bargaining around an $80 million expansion of Graceland.

    By Bill Dries July 03, 2019

• February 2019

  • Tennessee Court of Appeals hears Memphis monuments case

    The city of Memphis and Memphis Greenspace Inc. locked horns with the Sons of Confederate Veterans again Tuesday , this time before the Tennessee Court of Appeals in their dispute over the removal of Confederate statues from former city parks.

    By Sam Stockard February 26, 2019

• December 2018

  • City Council rejects Logan, punts filling vacancies to new year

    Memphis City Council members put off filling three empty seats on the council Tuesday at their last meeting of the year.

    By Bill Dries December 18, 2018

  • City Council calls six a quorum, as four hire attorney

    Six Memphis City Council members on Tuesday, Dec. 11, approved 39 resolutions from the delayed Dec. 4 agenda as the four members not present sent their lawyer to the special session at City Hall.

    By Bill Dries December 12, 2018

  • Week ends without City Council quorum as District 1 stalemate continues

    On the fourth consecutive day of what Memphis City Council chairman Berlin Boyd calls “the situation,” the council again could not muster a quorum of seven members to transact business.

    By Bill Dries December 07, 2018