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January 2025
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Ouster attempts, off-the-ballot action and other highlights: 2024 Political Roundup
The year in politics was topped by the presidential general election and several local election races that warmed political fires left untended by the distant campaign for president. The top political stories of 2024 also include the transition from elections to governing for other leaders.
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Young: ‘Turn down the drama and the foolishness’
Memphis Mayor Paul Young marked the first year of his four-year term as mayor at a New Year’s Day prayer breakfast where he talked about “turmoil” in schools and other “drama” locally.
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December 2024
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Memphis mayor plans task force to address police reform
Paul Young offered more detail in a Behind The Headlines interview on what’s next for MPD after a scathing federal report into the department’s policies and practices.
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Did Trump’s return prompt the release of DOJ report on MPD?
The last Justice Department review of the MPD began a month before Donald Trump was elected to his first presidential term. Trump ended the investigation, and others like it, 10 months into his term, and the Memphis report never saw the light of day.
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‘As mayor, I am accountable:’ Young responds to DOJ report
“It’s my job as mayor to fight for the best interests of our entire community,” Mayor Paul Young said, citing that as a reason for the city not consenting to an agreement with the Justice Department.
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November 2024
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‘Embarrassing’ blight and roadwork issues dominate One Memphis forum
Mayor Paul Young hears of concerns regarding a road infrastructure project, as well as blight and crime, during his final One Memphis event of the year.
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Local leaders announce new safety initiative — but it uses Biden funding
“No matter what happens with respect to the Trump administration, the city and county are prepared to make this office sustainable and continue the commitments,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said of the question of continued federal support in the Trump administration.
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Type 1 diabetes screening initiative announced by city
“A person’s not born with Type 1 diabetes; it develops over time,” said Kathryn Sumpter, Le Bonheur’s chief of endocrinology and a Type 1 diabetes patient. “It’s an autoimmune disease, so it takes time to progress.”
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October 2024
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Mayor says ‘on-demand’ ride services could make up for fewer bus routes
Memphis Mayor Paul Young talked about the overhaul of the Memphis Area Transit Authority during a Thursday, Oct. 31, “One Memphis” forum at LeMoyne-Owen College.
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Old Porter Junior High moves toward makeover
The old school building is undergoing a renovation to an early childhood center run by Porter-Leath, with a museum dealing with the rich history of the area to come in a later phase.
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Hickory Hill forum focuses on blight, absentee property owners
The Hickory Hill One Memphis forum is the seventh since Mayor Paul Young took office this past January.
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With MATA’s future uncertain, city steps in. But how much will it need to do?
The Young administration recently decided to pay $30 million to save the Downtown Memphis Sheraton from the auction block. The MATA overhaul could be just as expensive and resonate over just as long of a time period.
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New MATA board approved as city tries to avoid bus cuts
Mayor Paul Young told council members in a Tuesday, Oct. 15, committee discussion that the immediate task is to find short-term funding for MATA to avoid a set of bus route cuts and employee layoffs the old MATA board approved that take effect Nov. 3.
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Mayor Young replaces MATA board amid overhaul of transit authority
Transpro’s draft report said ridership has declined 82% since 1991, the system needs 18 more buses to function properly and its current capital project plans are “financially unsustainable.”
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Economic Development Growth Engine receives national recognition
EDGE received the “Outstanding Local Development Finance Agency of the Year” award from the National Council of Development Finance Agencies.
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City of Memphis wants to buy Downtown Sheraton for $22M
Memphis Mayor Paul Young said the city wanted to find a creative way to redevelop the hotel in an interview Monday, Sept. 23.
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Sheraton’s impact worth risk despite hotel’s volatile past, mayor says
The 39-year-old Sheraton hotel has a history of bond defaults, the first one a year after it opened.
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In the nation’s No. 2 city for cargo theft, experts seek answers
The city is positioned to be a transportation powerhouse, but crime is a problem. Cargo thefts in Memphis were up nearly 60% in the first six months of 2024 over all of 2023, said Memphis Logistics Summit panelist Melzie Wilson.
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September 2024
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Biden signs gun-safety executive order, Memphis mayor attends event
“This bold action will help save lives and protect our neighborhoods from the devastating effects of gun violence,” Mayor Paul Young wrote in a post on Instagram.
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Why the City of Memphis is trying to buy a hotel
Memphis Mayor Paul Young said he felt “very compelled” to purchase Downtown’s Sheraton because of the financial risks associated with not buying it.
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Mayor visits derelict structures getting ‘Blight Zero’ demolition
Memphis Mayor Paul Young and members of the Blight Zero team filed into a bus and rode to the sites of several active or recent demolitions on Friday, Sept. 20.
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MATA’s future governance up in the air, says Paul Young
The mayor’s comments about governance come after MATA has laid off employees, is weighing route closures, and has faced weeks of headlines about its negative financial worth.
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Memphis Mayor Young, Tennessee Gov. Lee not happy with gun-control referendum
Mayor Young says he still thinks the referendum is not the best approach, but told The Daily Memphian he understands the sentiment. Gov. Lee says the referendum is about finding a way to “circumvent the law.”
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Young talks MATA, crime, consultants at One Memphis forum
Memphis Mayor Paul Young met with around 150 people at his latest town hall at the McWherter Senior Center in East Memphis.
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