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Jones grew up in segregation. Her role model for becoming an attorney was Perry Mason.
Some Memphians regard Mud Island’s walkable Mississippi River model and museum as sacred, while others say nothing should be off the table as city leaders look to the future.
As the Memphis Police Department weighs a request by District Attorney General Amy Weirich to start sending all confirmed cases of excessive force to her office for criminal review, this hotly disputed September 2016 incident illustrates how thorny Weirich’s proposal may be. Related Story: A third of MPD excessive force findings are reversed by commanders
First Rudi and Honey Scheidt Community Impact Award honors people who go out their way to work for the community and spirit it embodies.
Mayor Jim Strickland rolled out a 13-member group Wednesday, Sept. 2, to make what he termed “substantive, realistic and measurable” recommendations on police reform. It's the second phase of the administration's effort and includes some critics of City Hall's response thus far.
Two proposals with common political ground were before the council Tuesday.
The data does not show that we need more police to become a safer city. Police experts will tell you: It is more about how you use police officers, rather than how many you have.
Mayor Jim Strickland has been in a no-win situation with the City Hall occupation, especially being a white mayor in a predominantly African American city. And while the ending of the protest was not ideal, history shows it could have been a lot worse.
The Memphis City Council has three resolutions on its Tuesday, June 16, agenda dealing with law enforcement.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has lifted the citywide curfew.
A crowd that swelled to more than 200 gathered in Downtown Memphis for the third consecutive evening of local protests over the Minnesota death of George Floyd.
The second phase of reopening the Memphis area economy began Monday, May 18. It will go for 21 days before a much more ambitious third and final phase of the reopening plan.
Memphis and Shelby County will start reopening for business Monday. It's up to Memphians to make sure it's not the disaster many expect.
With a plateauing of coronavirus cases locally, leaders plan to start reopening the county next week. Businesses such as libraries, gyms, places of worship and restaurants will begin reopening with restrictions.
We can’t even stand up and come together as one to fight something that’s killing us for two or three months without falling apart. After all, we need our nails done and a haircut.
As Tennessee begins easing coronavirus restrictions today, Memphis leaders continue to grapple with reopening plans. Has Memphis kept pace with peer cities in the region? And how do its coronavirus response and recovery plans fare with its great rival to the East — Nashville – which already has published a plan to reopen gradually over the coming months?
The dissension has filtered down to statehouses and into the streets, with thoughtless protesters thumbing their noses at social distancing and demanding that states end stay-at-home orders.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says the city faces an $80 million loss of revenues from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in a worst-case scenario and a “status quo” budget with no growth is the most optimistic forecast of federal and state government relief.
The Links at Whitehaven city golf course will reopen Saturday, April 18, in the first loosening of restrictions in the city’s state of civil emergency.
Host Eric Barnes and The Daily Memphian's Bill Dries talk to Mayor Jim Strickland about how Memphis is meeting citizens' needs during the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19 testing will ramp up Friday, April 17, as the city moves into more areas with mobile testing, Mayor Jim Strickland said Wednesday, April 15.
Social distancing may last another eight weeks or more. And, even then, don't expect Memphis to reopen overnight.
According to data released by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland late Friday afternoon, 278 patients are in city hospitals — 85 of them in ICU — awaiting a final diagnosis.
Did we do enough – soon enough – to avert a catastrophe that could overwhelm our local hospitals?
Local churches are urged to social distance to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Local official say they'll be watching.
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