There are 37 article(s) tagged U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen:

• February 2021

  • Cohen asks president to stop pipeline project

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is appealing directly to President Joe Biden to stop the controversial Byhalia Connection oil pipeline project.

    By Blake Fontenay February 22, 2021

• January 2021

  • Herrington: Goodbye to all that, as the Trump years end

    The new president’s inaugural address called for unity and a lowering of the political temperature while still drawing some firm lines. Joe Biden said that “politics need not be a raging fire” and called for an end to an “uncivil war.”

    By Chris Herrington January 21, 2021

• December 2020

  • Shelby County Schools gets $1.8M federal grant

    The grant is for a project at Belle Forest Community School.

    By Linda A. Moore December 22, 2020

  • Sanford: A Biden presidency means Dunavant’s days as federal prosecutor are numbered

    Democrat Joe Biden’s election as the 46th president brings the virtual certainty that there will be a new U.S. attorney and U.S. marshal for West Tennessee.

    By Otis Sanford December 03, 2020

• November 2020

  • Should ex-Klansman’s name remain on Memphis’ federal building?

    For 50 years the name of the late congressman and one-time Klansman Clifford Davis has clung to the federal building in Downtown Memphis. His family says it’s time to take his name down.

    By Marc Perrusquia, Christopher Fulton November 27, 2020

• August 2020

  • Opinion: The Outdoors Act brought us together

    Bipartisan support for this bill – including by Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, Republican U.S. Rep. David Kustoff, and Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander – speaks volumes about the value of parks in our lives. 

    By Carol Coletta August 05, 2020

• May 2020

  • Herrington: Government mask ordinances risk doing more harm than good

    The elevation of mask-usage into a kind of political symbol is a drag — it’s flat-out dumb — but it’s happened, and I’d worry that a government requirement, even a loosely enforced one, would increase the political strife around the issue without a commensurate increase in compliance.

    By Chris Herrington May 18, 2020

• March 2020

  • 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

     

    Confirmed cases

    Tennessee

    26

    Shelby County

    2

    By The Daily Memphian Staff March 20, 2020

• February 2020

  • Some cancer patients are luckier than others when it comes to insurance

    More than 40 states – though currently not Tennessee – have passed legislation that ensures that all cancer treatments are covered in the same way, and with the same cost-sharing requirements.

    By Ken Billett February 29, 2020

• January 2020

  • What voters know — and like — about Steve Cohen

    Voters of the Ninth District know their congressman sometimes leans toward the outrageous. But he represents his congressional district with passion and commitment and that’s why voters have sent him to Washington seven times. 

    By Susan Adler Thorp January 06, 2020

  • Cohen: 2020 election year is ‘political Armageddon’

    Cohen spoke at City Court Clerk Myron Lowery's 29th annual prayer breakfast Jan. 1, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could ultimately decide to pass on a Senate trial on impeachment resolutions against President Donald Trump.

    By Bill Dries January 02, 2020

• October 2018

  • Times’ story examining pregnant worker treatment draws bead on XPO Memphis facility

    XPO Logistics, employer of 4,000 warehouse and distribution workers in greater Memphis, is under fire again, the centerpiece of a New York Times story about treatment of pregnant workers in U.S. workplaces.

    By Wayne Risher October 24, 2018