There are 47 article(s) tagged Joe Biden:

• March 2024

  • DeSoto County primary election holds few surprises

    With all 47 precincts in the county reporting, unofficial results indicate the DeSoto voters agreed with the rest of the state in primary races for U.S. president and U.S. Senate.

    By Rob Moore March 12, 2024

• February 2024

  • Early voting numbers down from 2020, with Democrats on steeper slide

    Early voting in the presidential and General Sessions Court clerk primaries ends Feb. 27. Super Tuesday early voting in Shelby County was almost three times higher among Democrats four years ago than it is currently.

    By Bill Dries February 26, 2024

• September 2023

  • President Biden names Patrice Robinson to TVA board

    Patrice Robinson will be the first Memphian on the board since John Ryder died last year.

    By Samuel Hardiman September 11, 2023

• March 2023

  • FedEx CEO appointed to President’s Export Council

    The council advises the president on government policies and programs that affect U.S. trade performance and works to promote export expansion. 

    By Rob Moore March 03, 2023

• September 2022

  • Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike

    President Joe Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been devastating to the economy before the pivotal midterm elections.

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    A large-scale railroad strike would hit Memphis hard

• July 2022

  • Biden Admin: Docs must offer abortion if mom’s life at risk

    The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk.

    By The Associated Press July 11, 2022

• May 2022

  • Kustoff addresses national concerns, midterm elections

    The congressman told local business leaders the midterms could be a “wave election.” He believes Republicans could gain control of the nation’s House and Senate.

    By Abigail Warren May 10, 2022

• September 2021

  • Biden declares sweeping new vaccine mandate for 100M Americans

    The rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be fully vaccinated.

    By The Associated Press September 09, 2021

• August 2021

  • Memphis near the eye of national mask debate storm

    Tennessee finds itself at the center of a national debate over whether mask mandates promote public health at the expense of citizens’ liberty.

    By Ian Round August 22, 2021

• July 2021

  • MPD chief meets with Biden to talk violent crime

    During the Monday meeting at the White House with Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis and other police chiefs, President Biden said federal, state and local coordination is essential to his violent crime strategy. 

    By Bill Dries July 12, 2021

• March 2021

  • Biden sets May 1 target to have all adults vaccine eligible

    President Joe Biden used his first prime-time address Thursday night to announce his plan to make all adults vaccine eligible by May 1 and “begin to mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July.

    By The Associated Press March 11, 2021

  • Biden to follow virus-aid bill with national address

    President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law the $1.9 trillion relief package. The signing came hours before Biden delivers his first prime-time address since taking office. 

    By The Associated Press March 11, 2021

• February 2021

  • TennCare explainer: A look at what changes

    What do the changes to the state’s TennCare program mean? Here’s a breakdown of the changes. 
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    Lee to deliver State of the State, with focus on economic recovery

    By Ian Round February 08, 2021

• January 2021

  • State’s COVID vaccine supply increases under Biden plan

    Tennesseans will be vaccinated against COVID-19 faster beginning early next week after President Joe Biden announced a massive purchase of doses, an increased weekly allocation to states and other moves to manage the pandemic.

    By Ian Round January 29, 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

  • Sanford: Tennesseans, politicians and others must answer for insurrection

    As we look ahead with hope, we must also look back and demand accountability.

    By Otis Sanford January 21, 2021

  • At Celtic Crossing, they’ll celebrate a hometown hero on Inauguration Day

    Celtic Crossing hosts a party on Jan. 20 to raise a pint to the new president, one a little town in Ireland claims as its own.

    By Jennifer Biggs January 14, 2021

  • Sanford: At this swearing-in, unity is missing, replaced by anxiety

    On Jan. 20, 2009, there was remarkable unity and mutual respect among those in an inauguration crowd estimated at 1.8 million. Now, 12 years later, Jan. 20 promises to be a day of anticipation mixed with anxiety.

    By Otis Sanford January 14, 2021

  • Opinion: Cries of election fraud are less about facts, more about race

    At the heart of claims by Trump and his horde of conspiracy theorists is that it was statistically and historically impossible for Trump to lose the election, other than through fraud. How could they believe such grand-scale treachery occurred? The answer, sadly, is rooted in race. 

    By Otis Sanford January 07, 2021

• November 2020

  • Regime change could benefit Memphis economy

    A Democrat in the White House and divided control of Congress may be good for the city: relaxed trade and immigration policies, more stimulus spending, status quo on taxes.

    By Wayne Risher November 16, 2020

  • Opinion: Black men supporting Trump chose policy over character

    One of the major side stories to the 2020 presidential election is the noticeable shift of more African American men to Trump and his brand of politics.

    By Otis Sanford November 12, 2020

  • President-elect Joe Biden calls for unity

    “I sought this office to restore the soul of America,” 77-year-old Biden said in a Saturday night victory speech not far from his Delaware home.

    By The Associated Press November 07, 2020

  • Biden says he’s prepping for White House

    While neither presidential candidate has reached the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the White House, Joe Biden is on the verge and told Americans in a Friday night address that he and running mate Kamala Harris are taking meetings on assuming leadership.

    By The Associated Press November 06, 2020

  • Biden expresses optimism as vote count continues

    The fate of the presidency hangs in the balance as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fight for the last handful of battleground states.

    By The Associated Press November 04, 2020

  • In a year of uncertainty, presidential outcome fits the pattern

    Millions of voters put aside worries about the virus — and some long lines — to turn out in person, joining 102 million fellow Americans who voted days or weeks earlier, a record number that represented 73% of the total vote in the 2016 presidential election.

    By Don Wade, Bill Dries November 04, 2020