There are 29 article(s) tagged U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen:

• March 2024

  • Fire at Steve Cohen’s house ruled accidental

    There were three cars in the garage at the time of the fire, according to MFD spokesperson Qwanesha Ward.

    By Julia Baker March 15, 2024

  • Proposed federal legislation targets TVA

    A new federal bill could require the Tennessee Valley Authority to consider more public input in its long-term planning process. 

    By Keely Brewer March 08, 2024

• March 2023

  • Memphis gets FEMA funds for recent winter storms

    Little more than a month after rolling blackouts and a precautionary boil water advisory, severe winter weather hit Shelby County again. 

    By Keely Brewer March 08, 2023

• January 2023

  • Le Bonheur adding new high-tech ambulances

    The ambulances will be funded by nearly $1 million U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) secured through the congressional appropriations process. 

    By Aisling Mäki January 21, 2023

• October 2022

  • Opinion: Even if you don’t like the candidates, hold your nose and vote

    “I’m fully aware of the arguments against voting. It’s a waste of time. It won’t change anything. No time to vote. Can’t trust any of them. My candidate won’t win anyway. But our lives are affected by the people we vote into office.”

    By Susan Adler Thorp October 26, 2022

  • Rep. Cohen wants to tear down TVA ‘fence’ preventing competitive electricity market

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chair has called TVA’s federally defined geographic service territory “a vestige of a bygone era in the region.”

    By Keely Brewer October 01, 2022

• June 2022

  • Tennesseans react to Supreme Court decision on abortion

    Responses to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday, June 24, overturning the nearly 50-year old Roe v. Wade decision fall along party lines in Memphis and across Tennessee.

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    Near-total abortion ban takes effect in 30 days, but a ‘heartbeat bill’ could come sooner

    The closest state to Memphis with abortion access? Illinois.

    By Bill Dries, Ian Round, Aisling Mäki June 25, 2022

• May 2022

  • U.S. Rep. Cohen steers $3 million to former Melrose High redevelopment

    Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) dedicated $3 million to funding the redevelopment of the Historic Melrose High building in Orange Mound as part of his appropriation request for fiscal year 2023. 

    By Daja E. Henry May 24, 2022

• February 2022

  • How did Memphis’ Democratic congressional district survive redistricting?

    A brief history of the Voting Rights Act in Tennessee, and Shelby County’s protected congressional district.

    By Ian Round February 07, 2022

• January 2022

  • Latest redistricting proposal gives Cohen more of Shelby County

    The latest map would split Tipton County along U.S. 51, and about 30,000 Shelby County residents would be drawn out of Republican Rep. David Kustoff’s district.

    By Ian Round January 19, 2022

  • GOP redistricting proposal adds Tipton County to Cohen’s seat

    The map will likely allow Republicans to win another seat in Congress.

    By Ian Round January 16, 2022

• November 2021

  • What Tennessee will get from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill

    Tennessee stands to get billions of dollars to repair roads and bridges, build public transit and broadband and provide clean water after the U.S. House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill Nov. 5.

    By Ian Round November 10, 2021

  • House votes to strip klansman’s name from federal building in Memphis

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen’s bill to remove late congressman Clifford Davis’ name now moves to the Senate.

    By Christopher Fulton November 04, 2021

• September 2021

  • Letters to the Editor: Bill would lower costs for supermarkets in food deserts

    Passing this bill would help bring food, jobs and economic opportunities to Binghampton and to the 20 million people around the country who lack access to fresh food.

    By Letters to the Editor September 27, 2021

• April 2021

  • Military brings precision, discipline to Pipkin vaccinations

    Shelby County is one of five counties in the eight-state FEMA Region 4 to have received the federal infusion.

    By Jane Roberts April 07, 2021

• March 2021

  • Fight for eviction moratorium, Cohen urges Justice Dept.

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen said he hopes landlords and tenants in Shelby County will “work together” – with the aid of an additional $8.6 million in federal emergency rental assistance – to prevent evictions.

    By Tom Bailey March 30, 2021

  • Al Gore joins Byhalia Connection Pipeline fight in southwest Memphis

    Former Vice President Al Gore joined with Memphis residents fighting construction of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline, which he called a “reckless, racist, rip-off.”

    By Daja E. Henry March 14, 2021

• February 2021

  • Cohen asks president to stop pipeline project

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is appealing directly to President Joe Biden to stop the controversial Byhalia Connection oil pipeline project.

    By Blake Fontenay February 22, 2021

• January 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

• December 2020

  • Shelby County Schools gets $1.8M federal grant

    The grant is for a project at Belle Forest Community School.

    By Linda A. Moore December 22, 2020

  • Sanford: A Biden presidency means Dunavant’s days as federal prosecutor are numbered

    Democrat Joe Biden’s election as the 46th president brings the virtual certainty that there will be a new U.S. attorney and U.S. marshal for West Tennessee.

    By Otis Sanford December 03, 2020

• November 2020

  • Should ex-Klansman’s name remain on Memphis’ federal building?

    For 50 years the name of the late congressman and one-time Klansman Clifford Davis has clung to the federal building in Downtown Memphis. His family says it’s time to take his name down.

    By Marc Perrusquia, Christopher Fulton November 27, 2020

• August 2020

  • Opinion: The Outdoors Act brought us together

    Bipartisan support for this bill – including by Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, Republican U.S. Rep. David Kustoff, and Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander – speaks volumes about the value of parks in our lives. 

    By Carol Coletta August 05, 2020

• May 2020

  • Herrington: Government mask ordinances risk doing more harm than good

    The elevation of mask-usage into a kind of political symbol is a drag — it’s flat-out dumb — but it’s happened, and I’d worry that a government requirement, even a loosely enforced one, would increase the political strife around the issue without a commensurate increase in compliance.

    By Chris Herrington May 18, 2020

• March 2020

  • Coronavirus daily blog, March 13: Grizzlies to pay game-night employees

    • Germantown cancels programming until end of March
    • Bartlett changes municipal services
    • Municipal school districts to close through March 27
    • First Shelby County coronavirus patient released from hospital
    • Weekend looms large for restaurateurs

     

    Confirmed cases

    Tennessee

    26

    Shelby County

    2

    By The Daily Memphian Staff March 20, 2020