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City Council members have delayed the first reading on a police residency referendum until April to see if the Tennessee General Assembly passes a law banning such residency requirements for public safety employees statewide.Related story:
A pleasant surprise on the scale inspires a renewed interest in cooking at home.
Dr. Jeff Warren believes it’s time for mandatory masking; Deni Reilly worries restaurants are going to bear the brunt of high COVID numbers once again.
Sunday, the situation was dire enough that Regional One Health diverted trauma cases to other emergency rooms.
Car lots and gas stations are getting more scrutiny from the Memphis City Council. But the idea of a proposed used car lot on Old Austin Peay Highway becoming a bike and kayak rental business instead is a new twist.
Many of the speakers reiterated concerns about the pipeline’s potential impact on the city’s aquifer and questioned why the Byhalia Connection had to run through predominantly lower-income Black neighborhoods in Memphis.
Plains All American Pipeline is launching a full-on offensive against the proposed legislation with the help of organizations that support the oil and gas industry. Existing pipeline makes Byhalia Connection unneeded, environmental groups sayRelated story:
Plans to build a 49-mile pipeline to transport crude oil from southwest Memphis to another pipeline at a connecting point near Byhalia, Mississippi, have run into delays on a couple of different fronts.
Nearly 1,000 people in Shelby County due second doses could start receiving them in the last week of January.
The Tennessee Health Department adds elderly to vaccine priority list in 10-year swaths, starting with those 75 and older.
Shelby County’s hospital beds are filling up even though the county has one of the lowest new case rates in Tennessee, according to a New York Times database.
A new health directive is looming – one that could significantly tighten restrictions for the upcoming holidays.
The Memphis City Council will consider asking health officials for another lockdown just before Christmas, but suburban mayors adamantly oppose such action.
Nurses in hospitals are the most vulnerable, according to contact tracing interviews conducted in the last 30 days.
The next Shelby County Health Directive, expected soon, will include recommendations that hospitals test employees regularly.
People behind the COVID pressure-valve facilities in Shelby County are ready to go to work if the surge overwhelms hospital capacity.
The measure by council member Chase Carlisle was one vote short of the seven needed. It failed after a council debate that included one council member remembering his own brush with corruption charges. Others argued the proposal was arbitrary and cumbersome.
You might not think much of the latest health directive, but are you prepared for your favorite restaurants to pay a fine or be shut down if you don’t follow the rules?
As the numbers tick up, Memphis and four other municipalities see similar trajectories.
An IT upgrade to the state’s National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System threw off COVID case data entry, creating lags in case numbers that persisted throughout the week.
Weekly averages tone down bumps that show up when tests come from a high-impact area or are delayed in being processed and are reported all at once.
Dr. Jeff Warren says Shelby County now has "too many people who are sick to be able to randomly test people who aren’t."
From June 3 to Wednesday, Shelby County averaged 131 new cases and 1,558 tests results a day with an 8.4% positive rate. Five of the six highest single-day totals of new coronavirus cases in Shelby County occurred in the past two weeks.
In lieu of a buffet, India Palace is serving food thali style, and is giving customers masks if they arrive without one.
On 50 restaurant visits, we spotted 51 violations, the majority having to do with employees not wearing masks or wearing them improperly.
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