There are 631 article(s) tagged Memphis City Council:

• December 2018

  • City Council tries again to break appointment deadlock

    Memphis City Council members resume Tuesday their attempt to fill one of three vacancies on the 13-member body.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2018

  • Council Confidential

    Just before his last meeting on Nov. 20 as a Memphis City Council member, Edmund Ford Jr. was feeling good about his 11-year tenure at City Hall.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2018

• November 2018

  • Boyd says deals, partisanship, race are factors in council standoff

    Memphis City Council chairman Berlin Boyd says the council was on its way to a partisan and racial divide when it tried to appoint someone to fill the vacant District 1 seat last week.

    By Bill Dries November 30, 2018

  • Interest high in two Memphis City Council vacancies

    Former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. is among six applicants for the District 6 seat held by his son Edmund Ford Jr.

    By Bill Dries November 28, 2018

  • Council opens applications to fill two more vacant seats

    At least one of the spectators who watched the Memphis City Council vote more than 100 times to fill a vacant council position Tuesday will be among those vying for an appointment to one of two other open council seats.

    By Bill Dries November 26, 2018

  • City Council’s District 1 deadlock spawns theories

    The Memphis City Council’s deadlock over filling a vacancy on the body began to read like a political whodunit, even while the council was in the process Tuesday of taking more than 100 votes on the appointment. The usual suspects of race, political power and political deals were all mentioned and hinted at during the standoff between council members backing Raleigh Community Development Corp. executive director Rhonda Logan and Flinn Broadcasting sales manager Lonnie Treadaway.

    By Bill Dries November 22, 2018

  • Rallings says answer to police shootings is to support law enforcement

    Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings led a chorus this week of the law enforcement agencies who have an agreement with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to investigate fatal shootings by police: Leave the agreement as it is.

    By Bill Dries November 22, 2018

  • City Council vote marathon ends without council appointment

    Memphis City Council members took more than 100 separate votes on an interim council member Tuesday in a meeting that stretched past midnight before chairman Berlin Boyd recessed the meeting and the decision until the Dec. 4 council session.

    By Bill Dries November 21, 2018

  • City Council to fill first of three vacancies

    Memphis City Council members will fill a vacancy at their Tuesday session and elect a new chairman and vice chairman for 2019.

    By Bill Dries November 20, 2018

  • Seven file for City Council appointment

    Seven citizens including the mother of former Memphis City Council member Bill Morrison, the leader of Latino Memphis and the former Shelby County Probate Court clerk have applied to fill Morrison’s vacant District 1 council seat.

    By Bill Dries November 16, 2018

  • City Council turnover begins before 2019 elections

    With a proposal to extend City Council term limits rejected, the stage is set for the first significant change on the 13-member council since nine new members were elected in 2007.

    By Bill Dries November 16, 2018

  • Eight apply for open City Council seat so far

    The head of Latino Memphis and the former Shelby County Probate Court clerk top a list of eight citizens who have applied to fill a vacancy on the Memphis City Council.

    By Bill Dries November 08, 2018

  • Council session features Fullilove exit, head of TVA, South Cordova de-annexation

    The Memphis City Council will be down two members when it meets Tuesday in an Election Day session.

    By Bill Dries November 05, 2018

  • Janis Fullilove ‘blessed’ in new role as juvenile court clerk

    At first, longtime Memphis City Councilwoman Janis Fullilove had no desire to be Shelby County Juvenile Court clerk, much less consider entering the race.

    By Omer Yusuf November 04, 2018

  • U of M gets $5M to study ‘breaches’ in Memphis aquifer

    The University of Memphis’ Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research has been awarded a five-year, $5 million contract to conduct extensive research on the water quality of the Memphis aquifer.

    By Patrick Lantrip November 01, 2018

• October 2018

  • City Council takes applications for Morrison vacancy

    The Memphis City Council will begin accepting applications Thursday to fill the District 1 council seat that becomes vacant that day with the resignation of council member Bill Morrison.

    By Bill Dries October 30, 2018

  • Chancellor Kyle stops council spending on referendum material

    The Memphis City Council cannot spend any money publicizing the three city charter referendums on the November ballot until Chancellor Jim Kyle holds a hearing Tuesday on a lawsuit filed Friday by members of the group Save IRV, which is among those campaigning for the defeat of all three amendments.

    By Bill Dries October 27, 2018

  • Memphis police force increases for first time since 2011

    Over the last five years, the Memphis Police Department has seen officers leaving every year, but grant funding from private donors has allowed the department to recruit and retain more officers, and for the first time the police force has seen something it has not experienced since 2011 — growth.

    By Yolanda Jones October 26, 2018

  • Politics doesn’t always make you nauseous (only most of the time)

    There’s a bit early in Primary Colors, Joe Klein’s written-as-Anonymous 1996 roman a clef on the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign, that comes to me from time to time.

    By Chris Herrington October 25, 2018

  • Cohen: I urge Memphians to vote against the charter amendments

    Throughout my career in politics, I have always worked to amplify the voice of the voters that I have been fortunate enough to represent. In that spirit, I urge everyone to vote against the creatively worded charter amendments on the ballot in the Nov. 6 election.

    By Steve Cohen October 25, 2018

  • Council funds ‘public information campaign’ on referendums

    Memphis City Council members voted Tuesday to use the council’s government affairs account to fund a “public information campaign” on the three city charter amendment referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot.

    By Bill Dries October 23, 2018

  • City Council to consider Overton Square hotel back-up plan

    Plans for a hotel at Overton Square would include some acreage for stacked townhomes or apartment buildings if the Memphis City Council approves an amended version of the hotel plan on Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries October 22, 2018

  • More than awareness, Komen M3 subsidizes breast cancer care for region’s poorest

    It’s that time of year again when women and men bring the pink apparel to the front of their closets; pink ribbons can be seen pinned on lapels across the business community and even Memphis Tigers players done pink footwear and gloves.

    By Michelle Corbet October 12, 2018

  • Bellefonte-powered MLGW pitch generates doubts, questions

    The former chief operating officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority wants Memphis Light Gas and Water Division to drop TVA as its electrical power supplier in five years.

    By Bill Dries October 10, 2018

  • City Council approves New Bellevue development by Hein Park

    Memphis City Council members approved a New Bellevue Baptist Church sanctuary and set of 17 single-family homes Tuesday, Oct. 9, on 4.6 acres of land on the border of the Hein Park subdivision.

    By Bill Dries October 10, 2018