Ida B. Wells to be honored with Downtown street
The name change approved Tuesday changes the street’s name on city maps and as a mailing address.
Topic: Memphis City Council
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January 2022
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What happens with most local drag racing charges? They’re dismissed
Calling it a “terrible reality,” Memphis City Councilman Worth Morgan said that “people are not being held accountable for fleeing from police.”
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State change in discount rate to cost city $500,000 in next fiscal year
The state has lowered the percentage it expects to make on investments that finance pension funds. By state law, the city of Memphis must lower its discount rate as well in the spring budget season.
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City council goes further down the road in reckless driving review
On Tuesday, Jan. 18, District Attorney General Amy Weirich will talk about how her office prosecutes reckless driving and drag racing cases.
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City Council Scorecard: How to lose an appointment
The first Council Scorecard of the new year chronicles a rare defeat of an appointment from the city court clerk’s office and a few notes about the start of the second half of the current council’s four-year term.
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City Council Scorecard: The five most critical decisions of 2021
The top five votes by the Memphis City Council include what happened after a crude oil pipeline plan was withdrawn and the council’s do-over on the work toward a possible MLGW split from TVA.
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Efforts to bolster police force face tall obstacles
The MPD has gone from 2,449 officers a decade ago to slightly more than 1,900 today. The problem is national but also unique to Memphis in some ways.
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City Council approves residential subdivision in Raleigh
The council also approved medical office space on Covington Pike, and delayed a vote on a controversial retail development with gas pumps at Broad and Tillman.
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City Council delays police residency vote until April
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.
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Council rejects Williams’ appointment as deputy city court clerk
Calvin Williams lost much of his support for the appointment when he told council members his 2007 conviction on federal bribery charges was about his refusal to implicate Black elected officials.
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Police residency returns to first council agenda of 2022
Between the vocal debate on police residency at its last meeting in 2021 and the Tuesday, Jan. 4, session, Police Chief C.J. Davis has come out in a Daily Memphian op-ed in favor of a broader residency requirement for police.
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Neighborhood leaders oppose proposed gas station in Binghampton
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December 2021
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Orpheum Theatre transfer approved
The Memphis City Council approved the property transfer for a token $1 payment Tuesday, Dec. 21, on a unanimous vote.
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City Council delays first of three votes on police residency referendum
The delay came after some council members opposed to the ballot question pushed for a separate vote on first reading Tuesday, Dec. 21.
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Williams appointment in clerk’s office delayed again by council
The delay by the city council came after Calvin Williams said he’s paid for his mistakes but insisted he never “mismanaged anything in government.”
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City Council to take first vote on police residency
The first-reading vote to put the item on the August 2022 ballot comes at the last council meeting of 2021.
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Council members question Young Dolph’s legacy but rename street anyway
The council voice vote was unanimous to rename a street for Young Dolph on Tuesday, Dec. 7, but it came after some council members questioned the honor given the lyrics of some of his music.
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MLGW-IBEW contract impasse resolved before council verdict
A special Memphis City Council meeting called to resolve a labor contract impasse was settled before the 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, start of the session.
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City Council’s special session to decide MLGW labor impasse
The Tuesday afternoon meeting should be short with the labor contract impasse the only item on the agenda. The meeting technically continues last week’s meeting, which was recessed to allow for the special meeting.
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Frustrated City Council delays action on MLGW-union impasse
Tuesday before the City Council, MGLW management and labor couldn’t agree about what their final offers were and what was on the table. The result will be a special council meeting between now and Christmas week.
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Williams appointment as deputy city court clerk delayed by city council
Council member Worth Morgan called for the delay Tuesday, citing Williams’ conviction and prison sentence for bribery and extortion. Meanwhile, another appointment to the airport authority is also on the council agenda in two weeks.
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Council resurrects gas station project at Broad and Tillman
City Council members resurrect a project they killed three weeks ago on a tie vote for a January re-vote. And the debate was contentious.
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Council debates police residency as new vote looms
Most council members abstained or didn’t vote Monday in a test vote on the new proposal to allow Memphis Police officers to live outside the county ,but within a 50-mile radius.
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Council session has police, fire residency on agenda
Memphis City Council members talk about a new bid to allow police officers and firefighters to live outside Shelby County at a special committee session Monday, Dec. 6.
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November 2021
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Ford says he meant no offense, didn’t understand ‘she/they’
Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. said Friday evening he asked about a county employee’s use of personal pronouns because he didn’t know what they meant, but “could have been less harsh in my delivery and tone.”
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Tennessee Equality Project calls on council to take action against Ford
The statewide group working for LGBTQ equality called a pair of tirades by council member Edmund Ford Sr. at Tuesday’s council session “bullying, trolling and abusive.”
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