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June 2024
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‘It’s about transforming lives,’ mayor says, as he cuts ribbon on latest South City addition
The ribbon-cutting Thursday, June 13, of a new senior-citizen apartment building at the former Foote Homes was also a look back at the longer timeline of the city’s move to mixed-income communities.
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May 2024
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Southwest Memphis center reopens, re-anchoring community
The Riverview Community Center got a $2.3 million renovation that includes more natural light in the gym and rooms for exercise, games and computers along with a new exterior.
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Young said Davis’ reappointment to MPD chief could come after budget
Memphis Mayor Paul Young said Wednesday, May 22, he plans to seek permanent status for Interim Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis and two other key executives after budget season.
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April 2024
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City marks start of fiber broadband install
The groundbreaking at Willow Park in East Memphis Tuesday, April 30, is the start of building the infrastructure for a fiber broadband network that is to connect the system to at least 85% of the city.
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Orange Mound Library breathes new life into old Melrose High building
The $17 million renovation is the first public library in Orange Mound. Mayor Paul Young said the project is an answer to the gunfight last week in the community that killed two and wounded seven.
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Memphis Mayor Paul Young proposes 75-cent city property-tax hike
Young presented his budget propsosal including the first tax hike in more than nine years for the city Tuesday, April 23, at the top of Tuesday’s Memphis City Council meeting. Council budget deliberations begin next month.
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Young to take property-tax hike to City Council Tuesday
In addition to a property-tax hike, Mayor Paul Young is also expected to rearrange some city priorities in his first budget as mayor.
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Stronger, swifter sentences crucial, Mayor Young says
“We must demand tougher gun laws,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young wrote in a statement. “We must demand sentencing that mirrors our love for our community. Sometimes, that love needs to be tough love.”
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Proposed public-safety foundation gets support from Young, Davis
Mayor Paul Young and Interim Chief C.J. Davis support a Memphis City Council ordinance to create a philanthropic and research foundation that would take private donations and put them toward the city’s public safety efforts.
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Mayor says MPD’s new lieutenant position is necessary
MPD and its police union disagree over the recent creation of a frontline supervisor role, but Memphis Mayor Paul Young says the second lieutenant rank is needed to avoid another U.S. Department of Justice consent decree.
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City Council Scorecard: the first veto, health insurance extension and salaries
The first Memphis City Council Scorecard of the body’s term of office finds the council cleaning up a few leftover matters and examines the vote that didn’t happen on a North Memphis biomass facility.
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March 2024
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Political Roundup: Paul Young’s blitz, Blackburn at the border and more
The political roundup recaps some of the major action just ahead of the April 4 deadline for candidates to get on the August ballot.
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‘A historic day:’ Young touts results of Black Mayors’ Coalition
Mayor Paul Young and a coalition of Black mayors and city officials from 10 states and Washington, D.C., gathered in Memphis Thursday to discuss results of a two-day conference where they discussed crime and efforts to reduce it.
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Cohen, Young, Davis talk crime and cameras at City Hall
Cohen secured $1.9 million in federal funding for MPD — half for surveillance cameras and the other half for officer equipment.
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Trash. Drag racing. Weed, pills and stacks of cash.
City leaders get an earful from Frayser citizens at Memphis Mayor Paul Young’s third “One Memphis” forum.
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Black mayors coming to Memphis to talk crime strategies
Memphis Mayor Paul Young is hosting a newly formed coalition of Black mayors from 12 states.
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Pine Hill golf clubhouse opens with a different view
“Pine Hill needed a win,” Mayor Paul Young said at the opening of the new clubhouse, which overlooks the revamped golf course in Longview Heights that opened last June.
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Mayor Young transition team maps crime plan, other recommendations in ambitious report
The 112-page report outlines numerous strategies for Mayor Paul Young’s four-year term of office, including several sets of crime strategies from ‘drones as first responders’ to cooperating with the Justice Department investigation of the MPD.
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Young taps new ‘framework’ to address Memphis crime
“When I look at my success as chief, I’d like to push it off to what 360’s done, personally,” the police chief of Omaha said of Omaha 360, the model for Memphis’ new violence intervention and prevention framework.
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Tennessee Education Commissioner faces heat at town hall
Lizzette Reynolds, who discussed school vouchers, drew criticism. Other speakers included Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy, MPD Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis and Mayor Paul Young.
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February 2024
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Paul Young wants first budget to focus on crime, blight, potholes and more
Young said in an interview on WKNO-TV’s “Behind the Headlines” the budget will be “more firmed up” in the coming months. He will take a budget proposal to the Memphis City Council in May.
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Mayor outlines new public safety director’s job, still backs Chief Davis
Memphis Mayor Paul Young says the city’s new public safety director is a position that will consolidate the city’s response to violent crime. Young talked about that and other crime issues on WKNO-TV’s “Behind The Headlines.”
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Young: Beale should be ‘epicenter’ of Downtown
In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Memphian, the new mayor also talked about the need to keep suspects accused of violent crime in jail, what will happen with the Sheraton hotel and the latest documents released related to Tyre Nichols' death.
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City Council moves up final vote on health insurance coverage to Feb. 20
In other action Tuesday, the council approved the reappointment of Robert Knecht as the city’s public-works director.
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